Sat.Mar 02, 2013 - Fri.Mar 08, 2013

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Big Data | Thinking Outside the Firewall @Meltwater

Chaotic Flow

A few months back, Gartner placed big data at the peak of its hype cycle for cloud computing , meaning most big data products are solutions looking for a problem. I always find this bad entrepreneurial habit to be one of the most frustrating of our industry. Having recently joined Meltwater as head of marketing and product (BTW Meltwater is hiring marketing and product managers!

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Why I'm cancelling my subscription: a failure to communicate

Practical Advice on SaaS marketing

I just cancelled my subscription to the New York Times on my Nook. Not because I won't be reading the New York Times any longer. but I won't be reading it on my Nook. Why not? Because the service provider, Barnes & Noble, routinely breaks a fundamental SaaS rule: Communicate with your subscribers. What we have is a failure to communicate. Barnes & Noble is unable or unwilling to let me know when there's a problem with their delivery.

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Crawling - The Most Underrated Hack

Tom Tunguz

It’s been a little while since I traded code with anyone. But a few weeks ago, one of our entrepreneurs-in-residence, Javier , who joined Redpoint from VMWare, told me about a Ruby gem called Mechanize that makes it really easy to crawl websites, particularly those with username/password logins. In about 30 minutes I had a working LinkedIn crawler built, pulling the names of new followers, new LinkedIn connections and LinkedIn status updates.

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Are you Selling Trust or SaaS/PaaS?

Aber Law Firm

Well it is a little of both, but let me explain. I learned something about the Salesforce.com agreement that totally changed my thinking about SaaS and PaaS agreements, and service level agreements (SLAs): there is no SLA in the Salesforce.com agreement. Yep, you read it right; there is no SLA in their agreement. What Salesforce.com realized–and you need to remember– is that you are first and foremost selling ‘ trust’.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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Searching for Eric Schmidt

Tom Tunguz

For over two years, Larry and Sergey met CEO candidates before deciding to hire Eric Schmidt. Hiring a CEO was a condition investors imposed as part of the Series A terms. After the investment closed, the founders wanted to renege on that part of the agreement , but the board asked the duo to meet some of the valley’s top CEOs. At which point, Larry and Sergey only wanted to hire Steve Jobs.

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Are you Selling Trust or SaaS/PaaS?

Aber Law Firm

Well it is a little of both, but let me explain. I learned something about the Salesforce.com agreement that totally changed my thinking about SaaS and PaaS agreements, and service level agreements (SLAs): there is no SLA in the Salesforce.com agreement. Yep, you read it right; there is no SLA in their agreement. What Salesforce.com realized–and you need to remember– is that you are first and foremost selling ‘ trust’.

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Are you Selling Trust or SaaS/PaaS?

Aber Law Firm

Well it is a little of both, but let me explain. I learned something about the Salesforce.com agreement that totally changed my thinking about SaaS and PaaS agreements, and service level agreements (SLAs): there is no SLA in the Salesforce.com agreement. Yep, you read it right; there is no SLA in their agreement. What Salesforce.com realized–and you need to remember– is that you are first and foremost selling ‘ trust’.

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Are you Selling Trust or SaaS/PaaS?

Aber Law Firm

Well it is a little of both, but let me explain. I learned something about the Salesforce.com agreement that totally changed my thinking about SaaS and PaaS agreements, and service level agreements (SLAs): there is no SLA in the Salesforce.com agreement. Yep, you read it right; there is no SLA in their agreement. What Salesforce.com realized–and you need to remember– is that you are first and foremost selling ‘ trust’.

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Are you Selling Trust or SaaS/PaaS?

Aber Law Firm

Well it is a little of both, but let me explain. I learned something about the Salesforce.com agreement that totally changed my thinking about SaaS and PaaS agreements, and service level agreements (SLAs): there is no SLA in the Salesforce.com agreement. Yep, you read it right; there is no SLA in their agreement. What Salesforce.com realized–and you need to remember– is that you are first and foremost selling ‘ trust’.

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6 Reasons Why Your Integrated Payments Strategy Could Fail

If you're in the software industry grappling with integrating payments into your business model, understanding where others have stumbled can be a game-changer for your revenue goals. Discover 6 key reasons behind the struggles many face. The challenge goes beyond the technicalities of integrating a payment system; it delves into the strategic oversight of revenue shares, negotiations with payment providers, and the full exploitation of potential revenue streams.

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Crafting a Pricing Plan to Maximize Freemium Growth

Tom Tunguz

The three tier feature based pricing model is so common it’s almost a cliché. For some businesses it works well. But as Kenny van Zant explained to me, feature based pricing can slow growth in freemium businesses in two ways: first, feature based pricing creates incentives within a company to offer a subpar product and consequently creates unnecessary friction in the adoption process slowing growth.

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How To Measure the Success of a Blog

Tom Tunguz

I often wonder about how to measure the success of this blog. While there are many tools to measure page views and visitors, the absolute number of readers is probably the worst measure because it’s a false idol. Feedburner subscribers, retweets, time on site aren’t much better because they don’t measure the true performance of a blog - what fraction of an audience the blog reaches.

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