Finding Blue-Sky Success In The Cloud- CornerStoneOndemand

Making a dent in the Internet and generally doing stuff before everyone else makes you a pioneer. A term often reserved for the curious prospectors and miners, who settled the West.

Cornerstone On Demand provides workplace solutions and talent management software (essentially software that helps companies with training, recruiting, and performance). They began doing this far before the term “talent management” became common.

Though the company launched on November 8, 1999 — at a time when they could have become a CD-rom-based business, CEO Adam Miller projected that building software “across the Web” would be a savvier choice.

He was right. “We started the company in one-bedroom apartment,” he said. “Back then, there was no such thing as ‘cloud computing.’ There was no such thing as ‘software as a service.’ Back then we just called it ‘stuff over the Internet.’” Here is complete success