CRM

Prince Siddhārtha is said to have left behind his life of privilege, and his wife and child, to dedicate his life to the search for enlightenment and eventually become the…

Y Combinator Backed Bushido Pivots From Cloud Platforms To Customer Data

Thanks to increasingly powerful mobile and web technologies, people can work from practically anywhere. One eCommerce startup, the Utah-based Needle, sees a big opportunity for this mobile, remote, and telecommuting…

No More Call Centers: Needle Grabs $10.5M To Turn Your Fans Into Customer Service Reps

Less than a year after its $1 million seed round, Yesware has closed a $4 million Series A for its productivity platform for salespeople. The new round was led by…

Yesware’s Email Platform For Salespeople Raises $4 Million From IDG, Google Ventures, Foundry Group & Others
Enterprise

The Rise of Full-Box CRM

5:00 pm PDT • April 7, 2012

CRM is a massive business. At least an $8 billion industry according to Gartner. Salesforce, the company you think of when you hear CRM (after all, it is their ticker symbol) has a market cap north…

The Rise of Full-Box CRM

Stride, a new CRM system designed to meet the needs of freelancers and small business owners, is launching into private beta today. The product, which was born out of an…

Stride, A CRM System Salespeople Will Hate (But Freelancers Will Love), Launches Into Beta

Tagtile is a new company (and recent TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Alley participant), which is using the Square model involving free hardware to address the issues surrounding customer loyalty, management and…

Coming Soon To A Store Near You: Tagtile, A Square-Like Mobile Loyalty Service

Customer Relationship Management is an old business. There are tons of CRM solutions, both generic and industry specific. Mobile development shop MConcierge has recently announced a new solution for CRM…

SugarCRM has gone from 3 developers, 154 members, and 396 downloads of its open source customer relationship management software in June 2004 to 40 engineers, 450,000 users, 5.2 million downloads,…