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Breaking Through The SaaS Ceiling

Breaking Through The SaaS Ceiling

By Joel York on September 19, 2013

It’s the dream of every Internet entrepreneur to build a business that goes viral. Yet the sad truth is that most do not. It’s hard to think of any other industry with such a winner-take-all mentality as Internet software. The volatile combination of small market entry costs and big network effects creates wave after wave […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged chaotic flow, Churn rate, Customer Lifetime Value, Marketing Blogs, Marketing strategy, network effect, network effects, saas, SaaS Marketing, viral growth, virality

Designing The Next-generation Review And Recommendation System

Designing The Next-generation Review And Recommendation System

By Chirag Mehta on September 4, 2012

It’s unfortunate that despite of the popularity of social networks and plenty of other services that leverage network effects, the review and recommendation systems that are supposed to help users make the right decisions haven’t changed much. Thumbs-up and thumbs-down or likes and unlikes signal two things: popularity and polarization. If a YouTube video has […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged collaborative filtering, network effect, social media | 2 Responses

With Yammer, Microsoft Begins Its Journey From Collaborative To Social

With Yammer, Microsoft Begins Its Journey From Collaborative To Social

By Chirag Mehta on June 25, 2012

Confirming what we already knew, today Microsoft announced they are acquiring Yammer for $1.2 billion in cold cash. Here’s a blog post by David Sacks, the CEO of Yammer. Microsoft doesn’t report a revenue breakdown for their individual products but SharePoint is believed to be one of the fastest growing products with annual revenue of […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged cloud computing, collaboration, microblogging, microsoft, Microsoft Sharepoint, network effect, saas, sharepoint, skype, Social Enterprise, yammer, yams | 1 Response

To RIM: Don't Change The Strategy, Change The Rules

To RIM: Don’t Change The Strategy, Change The Rules

By Chirag Mehta on January 31, 2012

A lot has been said and discussed about RIM’s downfall: indecisive leadership, inability to innovate at fast pace, and no clear path to recovery. I don’t disagree at all with the analysis and the interpretation of the situation, but I do disagree with the conclusion that many people are drawing and vehemently disagree with their […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology | Tagged android, Blackberry, India, iphone, mobility, network effect, Research In Motion, RIM, smartphone, telco | 2 Responses

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