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Pricing strategy is a major component of any business, whether brick-and-mortar or bits-and-bytes. In addition to being an important strategy to hash out, it is also generally quite tricky to do correctly. Should pricing be value based or cost based? Should it focus on maximizing income per unit or volume? For all of the things […]

 
As the year winds up it’s always good to analyze how things turned out; we normally look into the past, compare the present and prepare for the future. It’s never good to wonder without ever checking if you are in the right path and thanks to the feedback from many of you, things are turning […]

A SaaSBlogs reader recently sent me a link to an article by Dharmesh Shah over at OnStartups. In a nutshell, the post articulated that building a highly scalable architecture when creating a new application is premature and creates a large resource tax on a startup’s already limited resources. This led to a vibrant thread of […]

We generally try to compare current decisions and ideas to decisions and ideas that we’ve made/had in the past and that parallel those that we are currently evaluating. This tends to be a good way to “analyze” the decision or idea and pick it apart. Organizations are familiar with outsourcing certain types of Information and Communication Technology […]

One common misunderstanding (at least in my opinion) I find when discussing SaaS with people (particularly SaaS vendors) is that they make statements like “SaaS is nice for business because it’s recurring revenue.” Why is this a misunderstanding? Well, the way that statement is framed is that SaaS gives the SaaS provider the benefit of […]

Many things in life tend to be mutually exclusive: you can’t drive a car and fly an airplane at the same time (not yet), you can’t be underwater and breathe (at least not without an apparatus) and you most certainly can’t talk and listen at the same time (believe me, I’ve been trying to perfect […]

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Marc Andreessen posted an excellent article breaking down Internet platforms into three “levels”. If you only have time for one article you would be better off to read his than mine but to summarize, the levels are described as:

Level 1: API driven, app lives outside of the “platform” (Think Flickr)
Level 2: Plugging an extension via an […]

I like a good mystery just as much as the next guy, and this story’s got it all.  If you haven’t got the time or interest to read the whole forum thread, here’s the synopsis:  Jatol.com (no hyperlink provided because of said mystery), a notable web hosting company seemingly popular with development crowds has simply […]

About a week ago I wrote an article on SaaS strategies for existing ISVs, and I see that a a parallel conversation emerged starting with a post by Anshu Sharma that claimed that in the real world, ISVs “…adopt a range of delivery model options to fit the customers need and economics of their particular […]