Goodlawyer Launches New $49/mo Legal Services Subscription

SERVICE TO SUPPORT SPECIFIC LEGAL NEEDS OF SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS ACROSS CANADA   Goodlawyer, an online platform that provides affordable, on-demand legal solutions for individuals and small businesses, announced the launch of Goodlawyer Pro, a new subscription service offering entrepreneurs legal services, unlimited access to legal advice and customizable legal documents, for a flat rate […]

Seismic: Fall 2020 Release Extends Content Analytics Capabilities

Seismic Gives Customers Unparalleled Abilities to Explore, Customize and Share Actionable Insights on Campaigns, Content, and Deals Seismic, the industry-leading and award-winning sales enablement and marketing orchestration platform provider, today announced new content analytics capabilities that boost marketer and seller effectiveness, drive revenue team alignment, and help organizations deliver exceptional buyer experiences. In today’s world, […]

InsideSales.com Xant rebrand

InsideSales rebrands as Xant to demonstrate focus on transformative AI

InsideSales.com on Monday announced it was changing its name to Xant as part of a marketing campaign that will include a webinar this Thursday to discuss what it calls ‘the new face of sales engagement.” Based in Utah, InsideSales is best known for offering cloud-based tools that assist with sales, marketing and account management. The […]

Chief product officers from Box, Zoom, Slack and PagerDuty share their ‘best of breed’ best practices

There are some people who don’t really understand the term “best of breed,” but in the case of one customer, all it took was a botched video call for Jeetu Patel to educate them. The chief product officer at Box recalled the incident during a panel discussion with his peers ahead of BoxWorks, the company’s […]

Pearl Collings Contently

Contently’s new CEO Pearl Collings: ‘There’s  room to move in any which way’

Contently’s new CEO Pearl Collings is focusing on moving the firm from break-even to full profitability by deepening its strengths in core subject areas, growing its services business and network of freelancers. Collings, who formerly served as the chief business and sales officer at Time Inc., was formally announced as CEO of Contently last week. […]

Box CIO Paul Chapman

Box CIO Paul Chapman opens up about the evolution of IT, working with line of business execs and more

By all means, you can try cold-calling Box CIO Paul Chapman or sending him a hopeful e-mail. You can invite him to your event, webinar or roundtable. You could reach out on social media or other channels and see if he’ll download your white paper. None of these standard marketing tactics, however, will work as […]

Testfire Labs Hendrix

Testfire Labs CEO wants to prove AI can take the pointlessness and misery out of office meetings

Testfire Labs is applying artificial intelligence to one of the most challenging aspects of working in an enterprise — no, not finding, converting or retaining customers. Surviving the agony of office meetings. Based in Edmonton, Alberta, Testfire Labs’s initial product is bot dubbed Hendrix.ai, that captures and transcribes conversations from business meetings. Beyond acting as a […]

B2B SaaS VCs

B2B SaaS VCs identify the traits that define successful startups at Collision 2019

The variety of startups attending and exhibiting at Collision 2019 in Toronto this week might be dizzying for marketing, IT professionals and other potential buyers, but top venture capitalists said the B2B vendors with staying power will be vertically focused and architect their products in a very specific way. A panel discussion at the event’s […]

Liquid Media Group Joshua Jackson

How Joshua Jackson’s acting career led him to launch Liquid Media, a B2B entertainment brand

For all the enterprise product announcements being made, Dell Technologies World holds little of the drama you’d find on Dawson’s Creek, The Affair or Fringe, but if a good story unfolds, Joshua Jackson is ready to provide the technology and services to bring it to life. The actor and co-founder/chairman of Liquid Media Group was […]

20-Min Term Sheet Romanow Clearbanc

Clearbanc’s Michele Romanow explains how her ’20-Min Term Sheet’ could finance 2,000 firms’ paid marketing efforts

Michele Romanow knew she had to do something to help entrepreneurs better market themselves — and keep control over the companies they create — when she first saw the wooden iPhone cases. As a judge on CBC’s Dragon’s Den — a sort of Canadian alternative to the U.S. hit show Shark Tank — Romanow regularly […]

incubators and accelerators

What if incubators and accelerators are doing more harm than good to startups and scaleups?

They may have been conceived as engines for producing innovative new technology companies, but experts told the first annual Drive Conference in Waterloo on Thursday that incubators and accelerators are largely failing the startups and scaleups who participate in them. Much of the Drive Conference, which was held at the Lazaridis School of Economics at […]

product positioning vs. category creation

The truth about all the self-described ‘category creators’ in tech

Most successful companies are not category creators – even though they may look like that to folks that come from large companies. Startups should be very, very wary of advice they get around this.  I recently had two startups come to me talking about their attempts “category creation,” for example, when what they were really […]

FPX digital transformation 2019

FPX research shows 58% of B2B firms pursuing digital transformation want to improve buying processes

The majority of B2B firms pursuing some kind of digital transformation projects are trying to improve customer experiences — particularly the ability for buyers to make purchases, according to research from configure-price-quote (CPQ) software maker FPX. Based on a survey of approximately 230 B2B firms with a strong focus on the manufacturing sector, the study […]

enterprise XR CES 2019

CES 2019 experts identify enterprise XR opportunities based on virtual and augmented reality

The competitive advantage offered by early enterprise XR use cases may make it difficult for other B2B professionals to learn how they can apply things like VR and AR in their own firms, a panel of experts told this week’s CES 2019 conference. Speaking from the week-long gadget showcase in Las Vegas via Livestream, several […]

NewtonX B2B influencers

NewtonX offers AI-based service to source B2B influencers faster and better than expert networks

A pair of former management consultants have created a company and service, NewtonX, that aims to address a problem they experienced first-hand: finding qualified B2B influencers to participate in market research projects. Based in New York, NewtonX was launched quietly in 2016 but is beginning to market itself more aggressively following a $3 million round […]

Mark Opauszky

PathFactory CEO Mark Opauszky predicts two big trends influencing customer adoption as a growth metric

PathFactory’s CEO is betting the future of growth in B2B will come from adding more value through post-sale data and taking a more granular approach to customer advocacy programs. The Toronto-based company, which rebranded from its original LookBookHQ moniker earlier this year, recently landed on the Deloitte Canada Fast 50, a list of companies the […]