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 [...]
One of my current areas of focus is in SaaS Product & Solutions Engineering for ISVs and Enterprises and I attended the SaaScon 2008 conference in Santa Clara. Attended the first day and I found the session by Bruce Richardson, Chief Research Officer, AMR Research titled Balancing Customer Acquisition Costs and Elusive Profitability. He presented [...]
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 [...]