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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. This has consequences both for the cost of onboarding a customer, as well as the cost of maintaining the customer during the discovery period.

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Beyond Frankencloud: living with your once and future SaaS architecture

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and onboarding new customers. Well-Architected Framework scorecard : One of the great advantages AWS has over other cloud providers is what it learns from the Amazon consumer eCommerce business. That’s the yardstick for identifying the most valuable technical debt to invest in remediation.