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Activist investor Starboard Value taking three Box board seats as involvement deepens

Posted on March 23, 2020 by Ron Miller

When activist investors Starboard Value took a 7.5% stake in Box last September, there was reasonable speculation that it would begin to try and push an agenda, as activist investors tend to do. While the firm has been quiet to this point, today Box announced that Starboard was adding three members to the 9 member […] Continue reading Activist investor Starboard Value taking three Box board seats as involvement deepens→

Box’s Aaron Levie says it will take creativity and focus to get through this crisis

Posted on March 22, 2020 by Ron Miller

The COVID-19 virus is touching every aspect of our lives and having a profound impact on individuals, businesses and society at large. Box’s Aaron Levie has built a successful business from dorm room to IPO and beyond. He spoke to TechCrunch today about the level of creativity and focus that it’s going to take to […] Continue reading Box’s Aaron Levie says it will take creativity and focus to get through this crisis→

Box is now letting all staff work from home to reduce coronavirus risk

Posted on March 9, 2020 by Natasha Lomas

Box has joined a number of tech companies supporting employees to work remotely from home in response the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, known as COVID-19. It’s applying the policy to all staff, regardless of location. Late yesterday Box co-founder Aaron Levie tweeted a statement detailing the cloud computing company’s response to COVID-19 — to, as […] Continue reading Box is now letting all staff work from home to reduce coronavirus risk→

Good news for enterprise startups: SaaS helped kill the single-vendor stack

Posted on February 11, 2020 by Ron Miller

In the old days of enterprise software, when companies like IBM, Oracle and Microsoft ruled the roost, there was a tendency to shop from a single vendor. You bought the whole stack, which made life easier for IT — even if it didn’t always work out so well for end users, who were stuck using […] Continue reading Good news for enterprise startups: SaaS helped kill the single-vendor stack→

Box looks to balance growth and profitability as it matures

Posted on November 27, 2019 by Ron Miller

Prevailing wisdom states that as an enterprise SaaS company evolves, there’s a tendency to sacrifice profitability for growth — understandably so, especially in the early days of the company. At some point, however, a company needs to become profitable. Box has struggled to reach that goal since going public in 2015, but yesterday, it delivered […] Continue reading Box looks to balance growth and profitability as it matures→

TechCrunch Disrupt offers plenty of options for attendees with an eye on the enterprise

Posted on September 22, 2019 by Ron Miller

We might have just completed a full-day program devoted completely to enterprise at TechCrunch Sessions: Enterprise last week, but it doesn’t mean we plan to sell that subject short at TechCrunch Disrupt next month in San Francisco. In fact, we have something for everyone from startups to established public companies and everything in between along […] Continue reading TechCrunch Disrupt offers plenty of options for attendees with an eye on the enterprise→

TechCrunch Disrupt offers plenty of options for attendees with an eye on the enterprise

Posted on September 22, 2019 by Ron Miller

Top VCs on the changing landscape for enterprise startups

Posted on September 6, 2019 by Connie Loizos

Yesterday at TechCrunch’s Enterprise event in San Francisco, we sat down with three venture capitalists who spend a lot of their time thinking about enterprise startups. We wanted to ask what trends they are seeing, what concerns they might have about the state of the market and, of course, how startups might persuade them to […] Continue reading Top VCs on the changing landscape for enterprise startups→

Every TC Sessions: Enterprise 2019 ticket includes a free pass to Disrupt SF

Posted on August 14, 2019 by Emma Comeau

Shout out to all the savvy enterprise software startuppers. Here’s a quick, two-part money-saving reminder. Part one: TC Sessions: Enterprise 2019 is right around the corner on September 5, and you have only two days left to buy an early-bird ticket and save yourself $100. Part two: for every Session ticket you buy, you get […] Continue reading Every TC Sessions: Enterprise 2019 ticket includes a free pass to Disrupt SF→

Adobe’s Amit Ahuja will be talking customer experience at TechCrunch Sessions: Enterprise

Posted on August 9, 2019 by Ron Miller

As companies collect increasingly large amounts of data about customers, the end game is about improving the customer experience. It’s a term we’re hearing a lot of these days, and we are going to be discussing that very topic with Amit Ahuja, Adobe’s vice president of ecosystem development, next month at TechCrunch Sessions: Enterprise in […] Continue reading Adobe’s Amit Ahuja will be talking customer experience at TechCrunch Sessions: Enterprise→