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Cognitive Dissonance: Are you a technology or a service?

Cognitive Dissonance: Are you a technology or a service?

By Derek Pilling on August 5, 2009

One of the trends I’ve observed over the past several years is that more and more technology entrepreneurs are starting service-delivery business.  By services businesses, I’m referring to the category of businesses that some venture investors refer to as technology-enabled services (“TES”). We at Meritage prefer the term network-enabled services (“NES”), which we think more [...]

Posted in Analysis | Tagged business models, capital efficiency, cloud computing, compeititve advantage, Economics, execution, lessons learned, risk, saas, service business, services, Technology, venture capital | 1 Response

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