Source to Success
Last week Visma announced the launch of a national road show to reach startups. The theme is ‘yes you can’ and startups are invited in Visma’s Volkswagen Transporter to pitch their business. The pitches are collected and distributed via social media and the winner gets a free trip to Silicon Valley. With this initiative Visma […] Read more »
Though Google and Imtech dominate the IT news this week there is another story worth mentioning: the acquisition of Qelp by Sykes. Qelp, who featured in our recently published Fab 50, was founded in 2005 and has been able to show significant growth as a SaaS provider of customer self service software for mobile operators […] Read more »
The Netherlands has a tremendous amount of interesting tech vendors, some of which get more attention than others. In an earlier post we discussed the lack of marketing power we sometimes see with Dutch IT vendors. This time we take a closer look at those that are able to catch the limelight: the Dutch Tech […] Read more »
Last week we attended the Salesforce World Tour London, with 14.000 registrants one of the largest software events in the UK. As in previous years it was a very savvy marketed and slick show. Though the event lacked major announcements there were some newsworthy items: Financials – Coincidently Salesforce announced its fiscal 2016 First Quarter […] Read more »
This week Forbes released its list with the most innovative companies. No.1 on the list was for the fourth time in a row Salesforce. Funny enough, the vendor who has grown its business with a prominent No Software slogan is grouped in the application software category. Besides Salesforce there were 12 Internet and/or software related […] Read more »
During two events we attended last week it became strikingly clear; we have so many great software firms in the Netherlands and we (as an industry) do such a lousy marketing job profiling these great companies. The first event we attended was a Main Capital event that focused on: “Successful international partner and channel strategies […] Read more »