Naturally the most discussed topic right now is how this “economic crisis” is going to affect the SaaS business. Will the lower cost of ownership finally persuade CIOs to adopt SaaS? Or will all the small businesses (which make up a majority of SaaS revenues) go bankrupt drying up the wells of ‘recurring [...]
I didn’t see this out there already so I thought I’d share it. It’s very short notice, but Salesforce.com is hosting a free webinar on building a successful SaaS company. The presenters are Byron Deeter and Mark Trang. Byron is a Partner at VC firm Bessemer Venture and Mark is Director of [...]
Just catching up on my blogs and I found this really interesting article on TechCrunchIT thanks to Michael at Salesforcetimes.
Basically this is a guest article written by the maverick himself; Marc Benioff. Long story short:
Web 1.0 was about getting businesses and people online to ‘transact’ or lookup information. Web 2.0 was about getting [...]
There were 2 very interesting SaaS discussions organized during the Always On Summit at Stanford. One session was titled ‘Will the Next Salesforce.com Please Stand Up?’ and the other was titled ‘Will SaaS Disappear in the Cloud?’
Both discussions were focused on the future of SaaS and where the industry is heading. The discussions surrounded [...]
For those with some time this Wed July 30th take a look at these free webinars.
1. eVapt’s Exceed Your Revenue Goals: 4 Actions for Unlocking Overlooked Sources of Revenue Inside Your SaaS Business
Phil Wainewright who has a popular SaaS blog on ZDNet will be moderating this webinar. Reuben Swartz, President of Mimiran [...]
I love reading the interviews on Sramana Mitra’s blog. They’re long (sometimes 12 parts) but they’re in depth and take you through an amazing story with each CEO she interviews.
There are actually 2 interviews that I found really interesting. The first was with Lars Dalgaard from SuccessFactors and the second with Michael [...]
Shortly after posting eVapt’s profile, I ran into this article.
Basically it’s an article explaining how Micro ISVs can survive the SaaS game. Essentially Gord from ElastX argues that the biggest problem for Micro ISVs is the subscription model. In particular, the subscription model requires users to be committed before using the software. This means [...]
