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SaaS Is Dead, Long Live Software

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However, the adjective “electric” was eventually dropped when all the devices in a product category utilized the technology. It’s high time we kill the term Software As A Service (SaaS) and call it what it is – software. You’re not a SaaS company, you’re a software company. You’re not a SaaS investor, you’re a software investor.

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Domain Experience Gives Entrepreneurs an Unfair Advantage

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If your last company was Apple, Blackberry, AdMob or JAMDAT and you have some experience in the sector then I know that your product will have your experiences baked into it. My first company launched in 1999 and we were offering a SaaS document management in the cloud (we were called ASPs back then). Another example.

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How To Make Freemium Customers Generate Revenue For Your Startup

InfoChachkie

Thus, we became one of the first ASP (aka SaaS) companies, by selling subscriptions of our screen sharing technology to customer service departments – the same market segment which had adopted BuddyHelp. A worthless / worth-little free product will be an ineffectual lead generation tool.

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App is Crap (why Apple is bad for your health)

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But like lemmings, every company in the market rushed to proclaim they were launching WAP versions of their products. Before you let me have it let me say I am a FanBoy of Apple products. I can’t be more of a FanBay of their products. In the same year Salesforce.com launched a SaaS CRM platform to compete with Siebel.

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