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There are two ways to make large datasets useful

April 18, 2012 by Chris Dixon
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’ve spent the majority of my career building technologies that try to do useful things with large datasets. One of the most important lessons I’ve learned is that there are only two ways to make useful products out of large data sets. [read more]

Software CEOs Talk About Adopting SaaS

July 8, 2011 by Bob Apollo
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Earlier this week a group of UK-based software CEOs talked about their experiences of adopting a Software as a Service strategy. Some were in the process of transforming a traditional licence based software businesses - others were building a SaaS business from scratch. I believe that their lessons learned are of profound importance for... [read more]

The successful approach

June 28, 2011 by Alen Mejer
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The successful approach is simply an advance agent of the appeal, the talking points of what you have to sell.Instead of jumping right in and talking about the features or benefits of your product before you’ve won your buyer’s interest, cloak the points and present them as something the buyer would want. Then you’ve got an interested... [read more]

SaaS marketing, baseball and the batting order

June 8, 2011 by Peter Cohen
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I recently read "Three Nights in August," a wonderful book about the "game inside the game" of baseball. The author, Buzz Bissinger, shadowed St. Louis Cardinal manager Tony La Russa through a three game series against the Chicago Cubs. Bissinger chronicles in detail the manager's thought processes and decision making through 27... [read more]

OpSource Teams With VCE to Accelerate Service Provider Cloud Migration & Reposition the Company

June 7, 2011 by Jeffrey Kaplan
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OpSource and the Virtual Computer Environment (VCE) Company announced an alliance today which will offer joint solutions aimed at helping service providers (xSPs) launch public cloud services more quickly. This joint initiative is the latest effort by various vendors to enable  xSPs to fulfill their promise as potent... [read more]

The Amazon outage and SaaS marketers' response

May 2, 2011 by Peter Cohen
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I'm sure the recent service outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS) had lots of engineers scurrying around, looking for a fix. I've been at a software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider when the solution's gone down. The operations and support people work through the night and weekends.Marketing people aren't completely off the hook, though.... [read more]

Learning the Right Lessons from the Amazon Outage

April 25, 2011 by Brad Feld
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As most nerds know, Skynet gained self-awareness last week and decided as its first act to mess with Amazon Web Services, creating havoc for anyone that wanted to check-in on the Internet to their current physical location. In hindsight Skynet eventually figured out this was a bad call on its part as it actually wants to know where every... [read more]

Cloud Parade Ambushed by Amazon Outage

April 25, 2011 by Jeffrey Kaplan
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Plenty of has been written about last week’s disruption of Amazon’s Web Services (AWS) which took hundreds of organizations offline, including many rapidly growing start-ups and evolving aspects of enterprise operations. (The best I’ve read summarizing the questions raised and lessons to be learned as a result of the AWS outage... [read more]

FinancialForce.com Wins Best of SaaS Showplace Award

April 4, 2011 by Jeffrey Kaplan
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THINKstrategies, Inc., the leading strategic consulting company focused on the business implications of the on-demand services market, announced today that FinancialForce.com has been named the latest winner of the Best of SaaS Showplace (BoSS) Awards program, which is aimed at promoting the measurable business ... [read more]

Building connections to your SaaS customers

March 28, 2011 by Peter Cohen
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I'm one in a million.Actually, I'm number 172,370 in a million. Which is why I recently received a thank you note from Reid Hoffman, Co-founder and Chairman of LinkedIn, as a way of showing his appreciation to me and the other first million LinkedIn users. His note says, "I want to personally thank you because you were one of LinkedIn'... [read more]

Your Data IS Your Business

March 25, 2011 by Rajeev Malik
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This post is by guest blogger Cornell Green, Your Open Source CIOEven if your firm or organization doesn’t “do computers” by trade, computers are probably more important than you realize to your Small Business. A lot of key information that was once kept in metal filing cabinets and on cardboard Rolodex cards... [read more]

And Doggonit, People Like Me!

March 23, 2011 by Jeff Nolan
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We have been using Rah Feedback for a while now and by way of feedback… I’m not liking it. Rah is a lightweight feedback tool that your colleagues can use to evaluate you on a number of dimensions. This is, IMO, the problem… it’s lightweight, which means it is entirely measuring how someone feels about you rather than measuring aspects... [read more]

Facebook Stores Deliver Sames Sales Rates as Web Sites

March 21, 2011 by PamDyer
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 According to a new white paper from Webtrends, Facebook stores now have the same sales conversion rates as e-commerce Web sites. “The Effect of Social Networks and the Mobile Web on Website Traffic and the Inevitable Rise of Facebook Commerce” was created in conjunction with Adgregate Markets, a leader in... [read more]

TrackVia Wins THINKstrategies’ Cloud Computing Business Value Award

March 21, 2011 by Jeffrey Kaplan
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THINKstrategies, Inc.  announced today that TrackVia has been named the latest winner of THINKstrategies’ new Cloud Computing Business Value (CCBV) Awards program, which is aimed at promoting the measurable business benefits being delivered by today’s cloud computing solutions. The CCBV Awards... [read more]

HP Shoots for the Clouds

March 16, 2011 by Jeffrey Kaplan
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HP’s new CEO, Leo Apotheker unveiled the company’s latest corporate strategy yesterday with plenty of fanfare, but little flourish. The theme of his talk and HP’s new mantra is providing “connectivity” to the Cloud to move “Everyone On”. While the picture he painted of this new world order and HP’s strategic... [read more]

Recent Writings on SaaS and Cloud Computing

March 13, 2011 by Jeffrey Kaplan
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In case you missed my recent columns and commentaries in other places, here’s a quick list of links for your reading pleasure and consideration: E-Commerce Times: Amazon Web Services and the ASP Model Redux Datamation: Who Will Move You to the Cloud?  You can also click here to find my recent blogposts on TechWeb’s Internet... [read more]

Retargeting Ad Campaigns

March 11, 2011 by Jeff Nolan
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I read that RadiumOne raised more money at a valuation rumored to be $200m. I can see that. Retargeting is very popular and for good reason, it works. You have seen this in action, you go to a website and then the display ads seem to follow you in subsequent unrelated websites that you click on. What is happening is that the first site... [read more]

After 20 Years: 3 Reasons Why the Chasm is Closer than it used to be

March 11, 2011 by Bob Apollo
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 Like most high-tech marketers, I found Geoffrey Moore’s “Crossing the Chasm” essential reading. His concept of the gap that exists between Early Adopters and the Mass Market, and the fundamental shifts in emphasis required to bridge it, has proved to be a key frame of reference in crafting growth strategies for high-potential... [read more]

Google, Salesforce.com and Sequoia invest $32M in HubSpot

March 8, 2011 by Brent Leary
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I was recently interviewed by Lauren Carlson of Software Advice for a piece she was writing about whether Google will directly enter the CRM market.  It brought back memories of a prediction I made back in 2006 about Google buying Salesforce.com.  I just thought it made sense back then for Google to snap them up because CRM in... [read more]

Software- Does Moore’s Law Suddenly Matter Less?

March 8, 2011 by Brad Feld
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A post in the New York Times this morning asserted that Software Progress Beats Moore’s Law. It’s a short post, but the money quote is from Ed Lazowska at the University of Washington: “The rate of change in hardware captured by Moore’s Law, experts agree, is an extraordinary achievement. “But the ingenuity that computer scientists have... [read more]

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