Archive for December, 2008

(ebizq.net) What it Takes to be a SaaS Provider - By Phil Wainewright

A very interesting interview with Mike Seckler about growing, scaling and adding value in a SaaS business. He started Employease in 1996 and then later sold it to ADP. Read the entire interview here.

Seven Stages of Scaling Web Applications

Your app could be the best in the world but if it cannot scale then you are going to be out of business. Check out these slides from the CTO of Rackspace about scaling web applications.

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How the SaaS model helps cut costs for a startup?

I was recently at one of the Startup Saturdays and couldn’t help but notice the number of students gathered to start something in the coming years. Everyone had more or less a unique idea and all of them were going to do it using SaaS.
Be it online collaboration, hiring, developing, CRM, billing - there is [...]

10 Predictions for Software as a Service

On Nov 17, 2008, Sandhill.com wrote about the 10 Predictions for Software as a Service. Here are my views and comments on the predictions:
#1 Itʼs the product, stupid!
It is the product and has always been the product and the overall experience it gives the end user.
#2 Software without borders
Very true. Just like how social networks have [...]

SaaS Companies & 2009

Bessemer 5 Cs of SaaS Finance
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Ben Yoskovitz has summed this up pretty nicely here.  Due to the market conditions and the slowdown of the U.S. economy it will no doubt be a tough year but SaaS business will do much much better once they weather this [...]