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Charm as a leadership currency seems to change with every wave of silicon valley engineering companies. In the old days of the early semiconductor firms the CEOs were often gruff white men. Most came up through the ranks of real products, dirty products, chemicals in the manufacturing process, union labor forces… and charm was [...]
We try to capture everything – we really do. But the reality is so much of our wisdom is in our heads and it’s never more apparent than when trying to train someone new. At FirstRain we have a new executive – the fabulous Daniela Barbosa who just joined us from Dow Jones. She’s [...]
Today, Lead411 released their “Hottest Companies in Silicon Valley” awards for 2012. FirstRain was chosen from a pool of over 3,190 companies in the Software, Wireless, Internet, Hardware and Media industries after the Lead411 research team scoured through press releases and business articles, including venture capital financings, company launches, office openings, new customer press releases, etc., and used this information to select the list of Silicon Valley’s hottest, fastest growing technology companies.
Last week was a very exciting week here at FirstRain! Beginning with the launch of our unique new Enterprise Customer Intelligence System on Wednesday, FirstRain now has the ability to deliver a seamless, end-to-end, customer intelligence solution that’s customized to each user in your enterprise and can be simultaneously delivered to iPads, mobile devices, email, [...]
Today is a very exciting day for FirstRain, as we accomplish yet another important milestone in delivering groundbreaking intelligence solutions to our customers. This morning we’re announcing the launch of the first ever Enterprise Customer Intelligence System. The news today is the release of our new workflow and integration system that lets you use FirstRain [...]
Social networking is the topic du jour. Facebook is going public at a gazillion dollar valuation; Jive market cap jumped 30% in the past few weeks because their charismatic CEO, Tony Zingale, got Barrons to say they are Facebook for the enterprise. And no question, companies are deploying enterprise collaboration platforms fast, trying to keep [...]
There is a world of difference between news aggregators like Google News, Moreover and Meltwaterand a true customer intelligence system like FirstRain. All have the ability to deliver some news from the Web but the similarity ends there. Keyword-based news is OK if you want a simple cut of everything, but they are absolutely insufficient [...]
The most exciting development in the Enterprise today is not, as Salesforce and Jive would have you believe, “social networking for business” but the not-so-stealthy explosion of the iPad as a productivity tool. We see dramatic deployments every day, especially into the enterprise sales and customer marketing teams which are the teams we work with [...]
There is nothing that feels as good as an email from a customer like this one we received today. This is from a company who wishes to remain confidential – but suffice it to say they are a large customer and have 9,000 employees using FirstRain intelligence. Well done Cory, Sagar, Ashutosh, Sweety and the [...]
We have a real problem with jobs in tech. We have more jobs than qualified people. This is not in the news today because for much of the US population there are not enough jobs. Not enough jobs that people are trained for. And yet in Silicon Valley we have 1 tech position open for [...]
