Tag Archives: Aaron Levie

March 12, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Crushpath Picks up $6M and Launches Tailored Pitch Sites

By Ben Kepes

I’ve written before about Crushpath, the startup founded by ex-Jive marketing wunderkind Sam Lawrence. As I said when I first covered there slightly stealthy launch, the premise of Crushpath is that traditional CRM, where salespeople have to record deals, introduces a barrier to entry – salespeople simply want to get

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March 8, 2013 Posted in Business 3 Comments

Please Don’t Market By Eviscerating Your Competitors–It’s Unseemly

By Ben Kepes

Last November I covered the launch of Filelocker – a company looking to build a cloud backup and collaboration service that meets the needs of enterprise IT. In their launch blurb they came out with guns blaing, with a very thinly veiled comment about Box: Front and center they’ve taken

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February 15, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Celebrity Engineers–Software’s Equivalent of Arts Patronage

By Ben Kepes

Back in the days gone by, if you were part of the landed gentry, lording over your landholdings and the common folk who lived on said land, you’d look to becoming a patron of the arts as a way to ensure your name would live on after your death. While

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November 26, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Reflections on BoxWorks

By Ben Kepes

Having had a little while to reflect on a month that saw me attend both DreamForce and BoxWorks, I wanted to get down some thoughts on what is happening with Box, one of Silicon Valley’s current darlings. This is all the more relevant given the slightly uncomfortable position that Box

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October 9, 2012 Posted in Business 3 Comments

Box Counters the Threat of ChatterBox–The Switzerland of Content Collaboration

By Ben Kepes

When Salesforce announced their ChatterBox content collaboration solutions a couple of weeks ago, the one vendor most impacted by the news was Box – partly because they’d previously been an important partner of Salesforce, but also because the announcement cut off some of Box’s oxygen, especially inside companies who are

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October 2, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

BoxWorks 2012–Predictions and Prognostications

By Ben Kepes

Next week sees me in San Francisco for the annual Box user conference (disclosure – Box is covering my T&E account), it’s an interesting time for the company, only a couple of weeks ago Salesforce stole some of their thunder by announcing a file sync and collaboration tool. BoxWorks is

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September 17, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Box Counters Salesforce Smackdown

By Ben Kepes

At TechCrunch Disrupt last week, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff leaked his own company’s news of a new content collaboration and sharing service dubbed ChatterBox. I’ve actually known about the product for a month or so, my sources who told me of its initial existence said that it was a direct

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June 19, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Ex Jive CMO Comes Back with Awesome Sales Tool–Crushpath

By Ben Kepes

Three or years ago I went out on a limb criticizing the new startup of ex Jive CMO Sam Lawrence – Blackbox Republic was a site that was going to reinvent online relationships for “sex positive” individuals. I was dismissive, and took some heat for being so. What I wasn’t

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May 24, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Huddle Picks Up Massive Series C Round

By Ben Kepes

Exciting news this morning from Cloud content management and collaboration company Huddle. The UK founded but now US/UK headquartered company is this morning announcing a Series C funding round to the tune of $24M. The round takes Huddle’s funding to $40 million in the five or so years since it

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March 5, 2012 Posted in Business 3 Comments

On Privacy, US Legislation and Cloud Vendors

By Ben Kepes

While in the US a week or two ago I spent some time talking with vendors about the security of Cloud data, in particular the impact of the DCMA and Patriot Act on non US customers of vendors. As part of my research I spent some time talking with Lindsay

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Ben Kepes is a technology evangelist, an investor, a commentator and a business adviser. Ben covers the convergence of technology, mobile, ubiquity and agility, all enabled by the Cloud. His areas of interest extend to enterprise software, software integration, financial/accounting software, platforms and infrastructure as well as articulating technology simply for everyday users.

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