Could Dormant Pricing Stir SMB Market for SaaS?
One of the dark secrets of the subscription business is the profit margins earned from subscribers who still pay, but who no longer use the service. This is a facet of the business that predates the SaaS industry by many…
Numbers, Volume 48
While we “don’t do numbers” at RedMonk, I come across many interesting numbers each week. Here are some:
Mobile impulse buying
MacRumors live-blogging the Steve Jobs during WWDC:
Now three stores on the iPhone: iTunes, iBookstore, App Store. Over 150 million accounts with credit cards associated with them.
This Week in Conference Attendees
Microsoft TechEd: “6,000 IT pros [...]
iPhone 4: Ho hum, but at least it fuels some trickle down economics…
Despite being plastered all over Techmeme, there’s nothing about the iPhone 4 that really gets my blood pumping. About the same look, about the same feel, a few more features here and there, none of which I’m dying to get my hands on. But at least its cheap. Some years ago, there was the constant [...]
Launch Silicon Valley: 30 Startups Debut Tomorrow
Somewhat late notice, but there’s an exciting startup debut event in Mountain View tomorrow: Launch: Silicon Valley, co-presented by SVASE, Garage Technology Ventures and Microsoft, provides the next generation of emerging technology companies with the opportunity to pitch their products to, and network with, an audience of Silicon Valley’s top VCs, Angels, corporate business development [...]
The Inevitable: China’s Getting More Costly
A colleague dropped a line from China over the weekend to tell me that it looks like the great firewall was blocking Spend Matters (it seems access to the site from China has worked intermittently over the years). The timing of this note could not …
Polymath, Renaissance person – Why we all must become one
Vinnie Mirchandani believes so strongly that we all need to be Renaissance people that he wrote The New Polymath. Do you need to become one?
Blue Oceans and Quanta of Competitive Differentiaton
Do markets drive “AND” to the exclusion of “OR?” Sometimes it seems like it, but the reality is deeper and more mysterious. This post was sparked by an interesting discussion among the Enterprise Irregulars group. They were discussing how WebEx had steadily made their offering more and more difficult to love through feature bloat and [...]
New Compass Research: Comparing SAP / Oracle Spend Visibility, Sourcing and Supplier Mgmt. Solutions
I’m excited to announce the latest Spend Matters 2010 Compass Series: Getting the Most From ERP Procurement and Spend Management Applications. This Series, our third Compass Research volume in 2010, leads off with Part 1, titled: An ERP Outlook: Ar…
How vendor speak is shrinking our innovative minds
Apologies to Nick Carr for mangling the title of his new book, but every since I spent time in Niskayuna, NY in January I have been puzzled. I had visited the GE Global Research Center as part of my research for my upcoming book, The New Polymath. …
