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Cool private companies: 3 software firms making a splash (and cash) As a software securities analyst, Richard Davis spends 200 days a year on the road visiting software companies. He goes to public companies such as Oracle and Salesforce.com, but he also visits up-and-coming software companies he thinks will go public in the near future. In his new column, Davis is going to talk about some candidates he thinks may be ripe for the IPO class of 2012 or 2013.

ServiceNow: IT management platform The San Diego-founded ServiceNow fits into the “hottest companies on the planet” category (along with Workday, HubSpot, BuddyMedia, MarkLogic, Acquia and a few others I’m not allowed to mention). What is really impressive with this company, is that the firm has built a few-hundred-million-billings company on what I believe is less than $10 million of contributed capital. Approximate size: >$200 million in billings iContact: Social media marketing I stopped by email and social-media marketing software company iContact’s funky new HQ offices in Raleigh, NC. 5 New Management Metrics You Need To Know About. How to Accomplish More by Actually Doing Much Less. By Tony Schwartz | 7:40 AM December 13, 2011 Two people of equal skill work in the same office. For the sake of comparison, let’s say both arrive at work at 9 am each day, and leave at 7 pm. Bill works essentially without stopping, juggling tasks at his desk and running between meetings all day long.

He even eats lunch at his desk. Sound familiar? Nick, by contrast, works intensely for approximately 90 minutes at a stretch, and then takes a 15 minute break before resuming work. Bill spends 10 hours on the job. By 1 pm, Bill is feeling some fatigue. It’s called the law of diminishing returns. Nick puts in the same 10 hours. Nick takes off a total of two hours during his 10 at work, so he only puts in 8 hours. Because Nick is more focused and alert than Bill, he also makes fewer mistakes, and when he returns home at night, he has more energy left for his family. It’s not just the number of hours we sit at a desk in that determines the value we generate. 7 Things Highly Productive People Do. Day to Day.