Building an Ambitious SaaS Company: Taleo CEO Michael Gregoire (Part 2)

SM: When did you switch to general management? MG: Coming out of that job I ended up having a large team. I woke up one day and realized I had a hundred developers reporting to me. The transition from being the technical architect to working with multiple technical architects and helping them get their vision

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Building an Ambitious SaaS Company: Taleo CEO Michael Gregoire (Part 1)

In our Enterprise 3.0 coverage, I bring you, next, a conversation with Michael Gregoire, CEO of Taleo (Nasdaq: TLEO). Taleo had 2007 sales of $128 Million, and a market cap of close to $500 Million. In this case-study, we will do a deep-dive into the company’s business with Michael.

Financing & Exit

If you are a very early stage entrepreneur looking for financing, chances are you need a lot more than help with financing. Most likely, you need help with Positioning, as well as overall strategy. For the moment, I do not have the bandwidth to take these projects on on a pure equity basis. I do

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Death of Indian Outsourcing

“Are you kidding? No way!” In 2008, the IT and IT enabled services (ITES/BPO) industries are supposed to be the major drivers of India’s economic growth. According to Nasscom, the two industries combined will employ 4 million people and account for 7% of GDP and 33% of foreign exchange inflow. The death of this industry

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Infosys In Light of Recession Fears

The general feeling of the West has been that the rise of the rupee would slow down the immense growth of business being funneled into India. The reality is that growth continues to boom in India, barely slowed by currency exchange rates. The short term looks alright for Infosys (Nasdaq: INFY). Infosys’ Q3 revenues posted

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Good SaaS Blogs

We’ve been discussing SaaS at length, and will continue to do so. Here are some other blogs that also offer good perspectives on the topic. Rough Type: Nicholas Carr writes on technology, business, and culture. He writes about the future of computing, especially “utility-computing”, his nomenclature of the SaaS trend. Software As Services: At ZDNet,

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Trend Radar 2008: SaaS Impact on IT Infrastructure

As we go into the era of broader SaaS adoption inside the Enterprise, the CIO’s office has some new headaches coming, although overall, a simplification of the IT infrastructure is on course. Imagine. You are the CIO of a Fortune 500 company. Your organization has deployed Salesforce.com for CRM, Concur for Travel, Webex for Collaboration,

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Trend Radar 2008: SaaS in SME

We discussed the rise of On-Demand Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) in the enterprise as a 2008 trend. However, SaaS will rise in the Small-Medium Enterprise (SME) markets as well.