Emergence Capital

A monthly roundup of enterprise news, thoughts and updates from Emergence Capital. For more content, visit: playbook.emcap.com

Emergence Capital partner Joe Floyd talks to Jett McCandless about his journey as an entrepreneur and how he founded project44, bringing digitization to the trucking and logistics industry.

Emergence Capital partner Santi Subotovsky sits down with Zoom’s Eric Yuan to talk about his company’s early beginnings and the importance of company culture and happiness.

Chitra sits down with Emergence’s Jake Saper to discuss her move from BCG to Salesforce and now COO of Comfy. She shares her thoughts on how to bring cohesiveness across job functions in an organization and pricing strategies.

Brian Patterson, Partner at Silicon Valley law firm Gunderson Dettmer, chats with Emergence’s Joe Floyd about how to best structure seed financing. In this conversation, Brian and Joe cover a number of topics including: - What are the best ways to structure early stage seed financing? What’s the difference between a convertible note and a SAFE, and when should a startup choose one or the other? - For those companies that raise on convertible notes, how do you approach board structure and governance? - What happens when people have outstanding notes and the fundraising environment turns? What are some lessons that entrepreneurs should know in those situations?

A monthly roundup of enterprise news, thoughts and updates from Emergence Capital. For more content, visit: playbook.emcap.com

Emergence General Partner Kevin Spain sits down with Ian Shakil, CEO of Augmedix. Ian shares his story about founding the company and how they’re on a mission to rehumanize the doctor/patient interaction.

A monthly roundup of enterprise news, thoughts and updates from Emergence Capital. For more content, visit: playbook.emcap.com

Rene Lacerte sits down with Brian Jacobs, General Partner at Emergence Capital to talk about how the idea for Bill.com came about, tips on hiring executives and the role of fitness and health within their company culture.

The opportunity to build mobile applications for deskless workers is big. However, it can be challenging to build a successful company that pursues this new and exciting market. In this episode, we speak with Stacey Epstein, CEO of Zinc, about what it takes to develop and distribute mobile solutions to the deskless enterprise. Stacey is a enterprise software veteran, having spent time in executive roles at SuccessFactors and ServiceMax before joining Zinc.

What is sales development? How can outbound sales development teams increase leads and sales? How do I hire and structure a sales development team for success? We answer these questions and more as Joe Floyd of Emergence Capital explores the basics and best practices of setting up a SaaS sales development engine in a conversation with Kyle Porter, CEO and Founder of SalesLoft. SalesLoft is the cloud application of record for sales development professionals. The company helps customers identify new prospects, qualify them and set up sales appointments.

User engagement doesn't always get the attention it deserves from enterprise tech companies. In this episode, we learn about the key engagement tools and tips used by Doximity, one of the leaders in driving strong engagement among an enterprise user base. Doximity is often referred to as "LinkedIn for healthcare." The company boasts over 70% of U.S. physicians as members. Jeff Tangney, Doximity's Founder and CEO, joined me on stage at Emergence's 2015 Mobile Enterprise Forum for this conversation.

There's a big opportunity ahead to build mobile apps for the enterprise. Many of the largest markets for mobile business apps will be in industries that haven't been big users of technology in the past. In this episode, we explore what it takes to build a successful mobile enterprise app company that focuses on these types of markets. Joining us is Glen Coates, Co-Founder and CEO of Handshake. Handshake develops mobile-first apps for the B2B wholesale trade.

In this eposide, we’re sharing an interesting chat we had recently with two leading on-demand mobile services companies: Shyp and Postmates. On-demand mobile services enable individuals to request things from the physical world from their mobile devices. Those “things” might be a car from Uber or grocery order from Instacart. Or in the case of our guests today, a parcel pickup from Shyp or delivery from a store from Postmates. On-demand mobile services have, for the most part, been a consumer phenomenon to date. However, the opportunity to serve businesses in this space is just around the corner. In this discussion, Kevin Gibbon from Shyp and Sara Mauskopf from Postmates share their views on the market for on demand mobile services in the business world. Thanks to our good friend, Semil Shah, for leading this discussion with Kevin and Sara.

In this episode, we hear from David Barrett, Founder and CEO of Expensify. Expensify is the leading mobile-first expense reporting solution. The company has thousands of customers and has one of the fastest-growing mobile enterprise apps in the market. David is a true expert in leveraging the App Store and Google Play for distribution, in building a compelling product that addresses a key enterprise pain point, and in staying laser-focused on his goals as a CEO. Interviewing David is Serena Saitto From Bloomberg. This interview was recorded at Emergence Capital's 2014 Enterprise Mobile Forum.

In this episode, we hear from Stewart Butterfield, Founder and CEO of Slack. Slack is one of the fastest-growing enterprise collaboration products of all time. The company's product is a great example of a fantastic mobile experience combined with a web experience. This interview was recorded at Emergence’s recent Mobile Enterprise Forum. Interviewing Stewart is Ari Levy from CNBC.

In the inaugural Emergence Capital Podcast, Kevin Spain shares why mobile is going to create a massive opportunity for enterprise entrepreneurs. This podcast is an excerpt of Kevin's opening remarks at Emergence Capital's 2014 Enterprise Mobile Forum.