Perspective Type: Insights

A Seemingly Endless Appetite for the Cloud

Today, the shift to the cloud and the adoption of software is not only strategic but absolutely mission-critical.

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by Alex Kayyal

Always Be Connecting: Five Lessons on Building Sales Teams

Five lessons on building high-performance sales teams from Michael Corr, AVP of Sales at Salesforce.

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by Salesforce Ventures

Metrics Matter: Three Ways to Leverage Impact Metrics to Drive Business Value

Executives from FutureFuel, Sama, and ConsejoSano share how they and other companies can harness the power and potential of impact measurement.

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by Claudine Emeott

Hindsight in 2020: The Unexpected Urgency of Adopting Cloud Technology

Looking back on a watershed year for enterprise technology companies that enable digital transformation, and considering what the future might hold.

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by Salesforce Ventures

Carry Your Own Torch — and Then Light the Way for Others

Navigating the workplace as a manager is challenging as it is, and even more so in a year where we all find ourselves interacting through screens. The complexity of that experience is even further compounded when you don’t look like, or have a similar background to colleagues or others in the industry. We created the

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by Salesforce Ventures

Renewed Optimism in Enterprise Tech: The Latest Enterprise Technology Pulse Survey

This year, with so many things being upended, disrupted, and redefined, cloud companies are answering the call for accelerated digital transformation.

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by Salesforce Ventures

Behind the Scenes of Cloud 100: Lessons Learned for Virtual Events

Like many planners and agencies over the last six months, our team has learned so much about producing, marketing, and hosting virtual events. Invites, hosting options, production standards, and best practices have evolved so much since we made the quick pivot in March. Not to mention, audiences are more distracted than ever before, and the

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by Trista Myers

Data is the Linchpin of Digital Transformation 2.0

Salesforce Ventures is doubling down on its position in Snowflake with another $250 million investment while continuing to invest in data-centric companies that are fueling the next generation of digital transformation.

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by Salesforce Ventures

The Rise of the Cloud: The 2020 Forbes Cloud 100

This morning, for the fifth year in a row, in partnership with Forbes and Bessemer Venture Partners, Salesforce Ventures is excited to reveal the 2020 Cloud 100, the definitive list of the world’s top 100 private cloud companies and the 20 rising stars poised to join their ranks.

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by Salesforce Ventures

Signs of Resilience: Three Takeaways for Enterprise SaaS

Key Takeaway: The more profoundly you understand what your customers are going through, the more you can help them solve their problems.

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by Salesforce Ventures

Enterprise Tech CEOs Share How They Are Responding to COVID-19

Salesforce Ventures surveyed its portfolio of enterprise technology startups to learn how CEOs are leading their teams through these uncertain times.

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by Salesforce Ventures

How Enterprise Tech Startups are Adapting Go-to-Market Plans in the Face of COVID-19

We surveyed our portfolio companies to ask about the state of their business and the changes they’re making across their organizations to prepare for both short- and long-term market shifts.

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by Salesforce Ventures