Hi, everyone, and happy Thursday morning. StrictlyVC was on parenting duty yesterday (closed summer camp), but hopefully you’ll gain a useful insight or two from today’s rushed column! —– Top News in the A.M. Mobile and Sprint are reportedly zeroing in on a $32 billion merger. —– The Pain and Pleasure of Cloud-Based Subscription Billing Earlier this week, a group […]
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The Pain and Pleasure of Cloud-Based Subscription Billing
Earlier this week, a group of CEOs, SVPs, technology strategists and the like gathered around a conference table in downtown San Francisco to discuss their companies’ respective experiences in switching to a subscription-based businesses. The move hasn’t always gone well with their customers or their sales staff, they openly admitted. But they argued that not […]
Zuora: The Hottest Company You Don’t Know
Zuora isn’t a household name, but the six-year-old is becoming kind of a big deal as private companies go. Its high-touch subscription-billing platform already counts as customers dozens of established corporate giants (HP, Dell, News Corp), newer corporate giants (Box, Docusign, ZenDesk), and up-and-comers (Dollar Shave Club) for whom its technology handles everything from pricing […]