
Business Models and Right-brained Geeks
Both Ben and myself often talk about how lean business models provide a competitive benefit in good times, and are crucial in a downturn that we are now living through. We can keep on explaining the pull-model vs. traditional software sales again and again … or jus sit back, shut up, and let a company […]
Software Startups: How to Sell to Enterprise in a Recession
Three weeks ago when I wrote How Software Can Be Resilient to Recession I was very careful using the “Big R” word – since then the bottom fell out, the doomsday-chorus started. On my personal blog I suggested we should Turn the Doom-talk into Constructive Business Model Ideas, and that’s what I intend to do […]

Welcome to CloudAve – and Thank You, Harry
We must be a crazy bunch on a suicide mission. Why else would we launch a new blog focused on Cloud Computing and Business, when it’s just a fad that will collapse in two years? Harry Debes, CEO of Lawson Software is a respected Enterprise Software industry veteran, but I’m afraid for all his achievements he’ll […]