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A retrospective from someone familiar with the SaaS ISV trenches
This post simply serves to provide a link to a post on another site, but I felt it very appropriate to shine the spotlight on a brilliant post by Ben Yoskovitz on Instigatorblog.com entitled ‘Lessons Learned Running A SaaS Business‘. While we tend to focus on the relative “newness” of SaaS, it’s always important […]
SaaS & Learning from Malcolm McLean
For those who don’t know who Malcolm McLean is, I’ll give a brief introduction. Malcolm McLean invented the modern shipping container: you know, the ones that come in on cargo ships, are craned onto trucks and trains, and that provide a standard for transporting goods worldwide. So why are his ideas important and what does […]
SaaS as Recurring Revenue Justification
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 […]
Can Open Source & SaaS Get Along?
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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