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Adobe Stock Spend Matters welcomes this guest post from Jack Freeman, Principal at PeakSpan Capital who is a growth-stage software investor. In a previous post titled “Investor perspective: The Rise of Verticalized Supply Chain in Large Enterprise SaaS,” we discussed the merits of focusing on a single end-customer vertical. While there were light references to category solutions like Yapta, we didn’t give nearly enough airtime to the rise of category spend solutions. Key diffe...

> Its whatever the project manager told me I should face in the morning meeting Just to be really clear - this is not "scrum". People can have a really difficult time with "agile" and related practices because theyre often conflated with bad people/managers/teams. For most of my developmement career Ive followed some sort of agile-two-week-sprint-scrum-with-daily-standup process and Ive never been told what tasks Im doing each morning. Ive never experienced this problem you started (but ive def...

State and federal law used to prevent the sale of alcohol in Michigan. Currently, state law prevents the sale of cigarettes in Michigan unless the pack displays an expensive tax stamp. In both cases, smugglers have realized significant profits by meeting consumer demand, whether for alcohol or for low-cost cigarettes. It is not surprising, then, that current cigarette smuggling recalls the era of alcohol Prohibition in the state. Michigan has often been a leader in economic and social experimen...