Mar 30th 08 Posted by Jesse Kliza

The new Starbucks “Idea Engine”

I walked into Starbucks Friday afternoon for a cup of tea, and came across this: I knew what was coming… Starbucks recently launched a new site called mystarbucksidea.com, powered by Salesforce Ideas. I love it when I see a company (especially a large name company like Starbucks), utilizing technology to listen to and involve their customers in more of what they do. I thought it was cool that they... read more

Dec 12th 07 Posted by Jesse Kliza

Treb Ryan’s sweet tooth for Salesforce.com

With just 3 hrs and 51 minutes remaining in the ebay auction for 3 Salesforce.com 1million subscriber chocolate bars, the current high bidder is….. Treb Ryan? Treb, this one’s going down to the wire…and I’m a professional ebay “sniper”. Kidding… I just thought this was pretty... read more

Nov 7th 07 Posted by Jesse Kliza

SaaS Mutual Fund…Where are you?

Phil Wainewright posted a great post regarding the lack of a mutual fund specializing in investing in SaaS companies. This is definitely something I would love to see.  With companies like Netsuite, and Successfactors teed up to for their IPOs, and others like Constant Contact having recently completed theirs, there are a great number of SaaS companies that together would make a great fund. Here’s... read more