Author Archives: Ron Miller

Adobe beefs up developer tools to make it easer to build apps on Experience Cloud

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Adobe has had a developer program for years called Adobe.io, but today at the Adobe Developers Live virtual conference, the company announced some new tools with a fresh emphasis on helping developers build custom apps on the Adobe Experience Cloud. Jason Woosley, VP of developer experience and commerce at Adobe says that the pandemic has […] Continue reading Adobe beefs up developer tools to make it easer to build apps on Experience Cloud→

The highest valued company in Bessemer’s annual cloud report has defied convention by staying private

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This year’s Bessemer Venture Partners’ annual Cloud 100 Benchmark report was published recently and my colleague Alex Wilhelm looked at some broad trends in the report, but digging into the data, I decided to concentrate on the Top 10 companies by valuation. I found that the top company has defied convention for a couple of […] Continue reading The highest valued company in Bessemer’s annual cloud report has defied convention by staying private→

Selling a startup can come with an emotional cost

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Every founder dreams of building a substantial company. For those who make it through the myriad challenges, it typically results in an exit. If it’s through an acquisition, that can mean cashing in your equity, paying back investors and rewarding long-time employees, but it also usually results in a loss of power and a substantially […] Continue reading Selling a startup can come with an emotional cost→

Five years after creating Traefik application proxy, open source project hits 2B downloads

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Five years ago, Traefik Labs founder and CEO Emile Vauge was working on a project deploying thousands of microservices and he was lacking a cloud native application proxy that could handle this kind of scale. So like any good developer, he created one himself and Traefik was born. If you go back five years, the […] Continue reading Five years after creating Traefik application proxy, open source project hits 2B downloads→

HubSpot’s new end-to-end sales hub aims to simplify CRM for mid-market customers

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HubSpot, the Boston firm that made its name by helping to define the in-bound marketing concept, sees a pandemic landscape that’s changing the way companies sell, forcing more inside sales. Today, the company announced the HubSpot Sales Hub Enterprise at Inbound, their annual conference being held virtually this year. While the company has been offering […] Continue reading HubSpot’s new end-to-end sales hub aims to simplify CRM for mid-market customers→

Uber for Business introduces a couple of commuting options to get to the office during the pandemic

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Uber for Business, the business side of the consumer ride sharing service, has typically focused on helping companies track their Uber expenses, but during a pandemic needs have changed. It’s no longer about getting employees to and from the airport or shuttling an important client from the hotel to the office, it’s about getting essential […] Continue reading Uber for Business introduces a couple of commuting options to get to the office during the pandemic→

SaaS Ventures takes the investment road less traveled

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Most venture capital firms are based in hubs like Silicon Valley, New York City and Boston. These firms nurture those ecosystems and they’ve done well, but SaaS Ventures decided to go a different route: it went to cities like Chicago, Green Bay, Wisconsin and Lincoln, Nebraska. The firm looks for enterprise-focused entrepreneurs who are trying […] Continue reading SaaS Ventures takes the investment road less traveled→

Salesforce announces 12,000 new jobs in the next year just weeks after laying off 1000

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In a case of bizarre timing, Salesforce announced it was laying off 1000 employees at the end of last month just a day after announcing a monster quarter with over $5 billion in revenue, putting the company on a $20 billion revenue run rate for the first time. The juxtaposition was hard to miss. Earlier […] Continue reading Salesforce announces 12,000 new jobs in the next year just weeks after laying off 1000→

Perigee infrastructure security solution from former NSA employee moves into public beta

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Perigee founder Mollie Breen used to work for NSA where she built a security solution to help protect the agency’s critical infrastructure. She spent the last two years at Harvard Business School talking to Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) and fine-tuning that idea she started at NSA into a commercial product. Today, the solution that […] Continue reading Perigee infrastructure security solution from former NSA employee moves into public beta→

APAC cloud infrastructure revenue reaches $9B in Q2 with Amazon leading the way

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When you look at the Asia-Pacific (APAC) regional cloud infrastructure numbers, it would be easy to think that one of the Chinese cloud giants, particularly Alibaba, would be the leader in that geography, but new numbers from Synergy Research show Amazon leading across the region overall, which generated $9 billion in revenue in Q2. The […] Continue reading APAC cloud infrastructure revenue reaches $9B in Q2 with Amazon leading the way→