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Still Bullish On Salesforce.com
Despite crossing the $1 billion annual revenue milestone, Salesforce.com’s shares plunged amidst concerns about its “slow growth” and lower-than-expected deferred revenue and guidance.
Forbes Column 08: Bootstrap Yourself
My new Forbes column Bootstrap Yourself highlights Silicon Valley’s hottest new trend, Bootstrapping. Great bootstrapping case studies I have covered are Sridhar Vembu, Frank Levinson and Jerry Rawls, Cree Lawson, and Beatrice Tarka. Sridhar, Frank and Jerry did it almost without any outside money, while Cree and Beatrice have done it with very small rounds
Why is Salesforce.com’s S&M Expense so High?
And it is finally official that Salesforce.com is integrating Google Apps into its CRM applications to provide the first cloud computing suite for enterprises. Called Salesforce for Google Apps, it leverages the Force.com Platform and Google’s open APIs. Sridhar Vembu, CEO of Adventnet, whose company also competes with both Salesforce.com and Google with productivity suite
Catching Up On Readings: Media Mania
If you have missed these posts from my recent writings, today may be a good time to catch up on some reading: First, in the blogosphere, online media, old and new media, advertising – big changes have taken place. Here is a set of posts from the Deal Radar series that might help you make
India’s Labor Arbitrage Strategy
It has been an interesting few days of being on the receiving end of tremendous hate mail due to my widely syndicated and (looks like) read and discussed Death of Indian Outsourcing article.
Sridhar Vembu: Silicon Valley’s Unknown Indian
The story of Sridhar Vembu’s innovative bootstrapping. A story all entrepreneurs should understand.
Bootstrapping is One Answer
The VC-Entrepreneur Compensation Disbalance post has generated great discussion. In it, a theme that emerges over and again, is Bootstrapping. You have read a few of my prior writings on Bootstrapping [Is Bootstrapping Becoming Sexy and Again? and Protect Your Dilution]. There is no doubt at all anymore that bootstrapping is, indeed, becoming sexy again.
Happily Bootstrapping: Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu (Part 7)
Sridhar’s thesis around Zoho is to ride on top of the market awareness already created by Salesforce.com, Webex and others around On-Demand / SaaS delivery models for business applications like the Office Suite, CRM, Web Conferencing, Project Management, etc. and simply do a dramatic undercutting based on price. He insists that the amount of Sales