by Robert Solomon | Feb 22, 2021 | B2B Software, Financial services, Marketplaces
It’s no surprise that there are too many investment marketplaces to name. After all, marketplaces tend to thrive in markets that are: Volatile Varied Fragmented on both sides The world of investment management certainly meets these requirements. In the US...
by Robert Solomon | Nov 23, 2020 | CPG/Retail, Electronic Payments, Financial services, Marketplaces
Every day there is a new IPO for an interesting software company with a marketplace angle. Airbnb’s S-1 is the obvious example. But Affirm, which filed to go public last week has marketplace aspirations as well. There are plenty of great articles on the...
by Robert Solomon | Dec 13, 2017 | B2B Software, Financial services, Real Estate
When I was at Ariba, we started by automating relatively straightforward business transactions. The transactions usually involved well-defined goods from catalogs, simple purchase orders, and invoices. Many items did not even require proof of delivery. This was an...
by Robert Solomon | Dec 1, 2017 | B2B Software, Financial services, Industry Big Data, Insurance, Oil and Gas
Unless you are a true B2B software nerd (which many of you are), you just thought to yourself, “Who bought who?” After all, neither the acquirer nor the acquiree is exactly a household name. Nonetheless, Verisk Analytics and PowerAdvocate are great...
by Robert Solomon | Oct 6, 2017 | B2B Software, Consolidating Competition, Financial services, Industry Big Data
At almost exactly this same time in 2016 and 2015 I wrote about the consortia of banks, Symphony, trying to take on one of the most successful enterprise software platforms of all time: Bloomberg (see here and here). Now comes the 2017 update: the battle is on!...
by Robert Solomon | Mar 24, 2017 | Financial services, Road Warrior |
They fought (and in many cases gave their lives) to defend the freedoms we now take for granted. That’s why we call them America’s Greatest Generation. And how do we repay them? From what I can tell, we try to scam them out of every last penny! Pure and...
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