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Monetization: What SaaS platform builders need to know to prepare for growth, Part 2

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Feature value: a function of time investment of users and customers The set of problems that your SaaS solves won’t survive long in the digital age if all it does is cut prices. Cost to serve a customer-facing feature is money that comes out of your pocket, and goes straight into the cloud provider’s pocket. More on that below.

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The SaaS Balancing Act: Always Be Modernizing

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Hint: All the public cloud companies are doubling down on full-stack SaaS, betting that it’s the best way to get more companies growing via the cloud. Optimize cloud economics and drive Business Goals. So, what do you have to do to be the winning choice? Modernizing your app is not a destination; it’s a journey.

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Beyond Frankencloud: living with your once and future SaaS architecture

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When you treat your cloud provider as a fractional colo. Bottom-up cost transparency is a key feature of any public cloud platform. Cloud compute spend is another form of technical debt; more on that in a future post). An alternative: the Cloud Container Solutions Cloud Native Maturity Matrix. Containers!