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Should You Scale-proof SaaS Offerings Early?


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 […]

The Pizza Box Metric


A couple of years ago, I read an article about the origins of Yahoo! The article described the infamous Yahoo! trailer and the scene where Michael Moritz of Sequoia Capital first walked in and encountering a mess, complete with drawn shades and pizza boxes strewn across the room. The dwelling seemed fit for dogs, or […]