Attended the SaaS Economic Summit last week and there were some interesting sessions that talked about the economics of SaaS.
Lauren Kelley, CEO, OPEXEngine presented some operating benchmarks on SaaS companies that was aggregated from data OPEXEngine collected from SaaS & non-SaaS companies. Some of the key points from her presentation:
She quoted Will Price’s data summarizing [...]
Vivek Wadhwa, in a recent Business Week article titled “Why Small Tech Companies Aren’t Outsourcing“, points out that contrary to what you might think, only 15% of the total outsourcing is done by technology companies. Being in the Silicon Valley this is a bit hard to digest knowing that most of the product companies around [...]
I recently came across two interesting posts by CEOs of startups who have tried offshoring and decided to bring the work onshore. The two used different models and had good things to say about their experiences but in the end realized that the work is better done onshore than continue offshore.
The first one by [...]