Workiva files to go public
Workiva? It sounds like the love child of Workday and Kiva Systems, but it is not. You have likely never heard of Workiva for three reasons: In July of this year it changed its name from Webfilings It is headquartered in Ames, Iowa, which is quite nice, but...
Adult Entertainment Payment Service
Alert readers of this blog (all four of you) know that I love specialized invoice and payment services --for freight, clinical trials, facilities management, meetings and events, temporary labor, health care, liquor, media, etc. One alert reader, who shall remain...
Nobel Prizes and B2B Marketplaces
Okay, maybe the headline is a slight stretch, but the news today that Jean Tirole of France has won the "Nobel" Prize for economics makes it a lot less of a stretch. Tirole's work, in part, includes work on "Two-Sided" markets which describes businesses ranging from...
Take a walk on the Supplier Side
The laws of business physics suggest that for every "Source to Settle" process in a buying company, there is an equal and opposite "Quote to Cash" process at a supplier. (To verify that, I used Google Trends to compare the search frequency of the terms "Procure to...
No Wait: Another OpenTable?
OpenTable was a great story. (I wrote about it almost exactly three years ago here.) To refresh your memory, the company went public in March, 2009 at the bottom of the stock market with a market cap of $700 million. Two years later its market cap rose to 5-6x that...
Two Stock Indices for US B2B E-Commerce Companies
Using Motif Investing, I built two stock indices of B2B e-commerce companies. Caveat emptor!
Concur: Nothing but respect
Concur’s acquisition by SAP is a validation of the rewards for patience and focus. Bravo.
Back to the Future
This headline from yesterday, not 1996, really caught my attention: B2B Marketplace Kinnek Raises $10 Million From Matrix To Help SMBs Find And Purchase Supplies Kinnek is a site that allows companies to post their Requests For Quotations (RFQs)(presumably for...
Marketing Automation Vendor Hubspot to IPO
Marketing automation vendor, Hubspot, filed for an IPO. Hubspot has built an ecosystem that may help it exploit the middle market.
