If you take too much capital and accept a valuation that drifts too far from reality, you can find your business someplace you never wanted to be.

After seven years at Peoplesoft, Heidi left the HR tech giant at its height to co-found her own HR consultancy, Knowledge Infusion, with no consulting experience whatsoever and sold it to Appirio in 2012. In this Q&A, she describes how representation in the workplace is essential to cultivating innovation and why every leader should embrace their unique strengths early in their career.

SMB Tech is expected to be a $676B market by 2021 and small businesses represent 44% of the US GDP, yet until recently, it’s been relatively ignored by venture firms. This blog highlights a recent keynote by Jeff Richards and Tiffany Luck from GGV Capital, who recognized the trend early on, and talk about why the market is taking off.

Paula-Jo (PJ) Oleksak, the chief business officer at Slice, talks about her transition from finance to operations, how she builds successful teams by keeping things simple, and the need to empower people while allowing them to be full humans, especially in today’s world.

Tomorrow marks the four year anniversary of Wipro's acquisition of Appirio, and I’m now beginning the next chapter of my professional career with Tercera. Tercera is our new company focused 100% on identifying and building the next generation of cloud professional service providers.

Earlier this month I had the privilege to moderate a panel on entrepreneurship for my alma mater Bates University and its Center for Purposeful Work.

I have spent 25 years of my life in enterprise technology, including an incredible 12+ year journey at Appirio and Wipro that officially ended last month. When I sat back to think about what I wanted to do next, all I knew was that I wanted something new.