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Guest author: Pratyush Nath – a software engineer in our Gurgaon office FirstRain India celebrated the Annual Company Event on the 8th of January 2011 to culminate the a series of events we have held over the past six months. It all started with dividing the India rainmakers into six teams bringing together folks from [...]
Here’s a great example of FirstRain helping a group of users in private equity. I was able to visit Stuart Jackson at Actis before Christmas last year – on a very snowy, cold day in London. One of those days when I am reminded why I left the UK to work in California. We met [...]
I’m reminded of something I learned a long time ago about relationship dynamics in the workplace – from the Zen master of leadership Renn Zaphiropoulos. Teamwork is critical to moving fast. I wrote in the past how trust is simply more efficient. It allows people to share risky ideas, make decisions quickly-learn-change, and to be [...]
It’s exciting to see the economy come back and companies start to add new jobs – even the usually glum media like CNN is starting to report a coming hiring boom here. Here at FirstRain we have a number of open positions in very interesting areas. Our openings are both in San Mateo, California and [...]
You will probably have noticed that your FirstRain email monitors changed over the Holidays. This new style of monitor is designed to help you i) see the highest impact articles first, ii) quickly read the ranked highlights for each company or market topic you are monitoring, iii) highlight key analytics such as management turnover, analyst [...]
Many of our customers are hedge funds looking to both save time and get an intelligence advantage from the web. They are notoriously secret so we can rarely use their names – but even so they will talk with us and share how they use FirstRain. Liz (her name has been changed at her request) [...]
We have a fun tradition each year around the Holidays – a white elephant gift exchange and a pot luck lunch. This year we twisted it up a bit. Not only did we do the usual fun of each person opening a gift or choosing to steal another, but this time we had plenty of [...]
From Aparna Gupta – Director of Analytics – Reporting from the first Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing in India While most of my team in California was at Dreamforce last week, I had the pleasure of being a part of the Grace Hopper conference at India’s own silicon valley- Bangalore, in which FirstRain [...]
Our team is working hard at Dreamforce this week – if you are there and have not visited us yet stop by! Not only can we share the benefits of the new version of FirstRain with you, we are also giving away a tiny radio for your listening pleasure As you can see here – [...]
We’ll be at Dreamforce 2010 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco next week – the happening place for sales people and the sales ops and marketing people who support them. We’ll be showing all the hot new capabilities in FirstRain – how to easily monitor your key customers – how to efficiently understand the [...]
