Breaking Through The SaaS Ceiling
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 […]
Network Effects Will Lead to SaaS Vendor Lockin?
As people in US enter the long weekend of July 4th (independence day), we have something to ponder about the independence of SaaS users. Alistair Croll, writing on GigaOm, points us to the possibility of SaaS vendor lock-in as a result of network effects. Once a SaaS provider hits a certain size, secondary business models […]
Network Effects, Monopoly and Cloud Computing
There is a new debate brewing in the tech blogosphere about whether network effects play a role in the success of a cloud computing vendor or not. It all started with Hugh Macleod making an argument in his post that there is a potential for a single company to achieve monopoly in the cloud infrastructure […]
