A Pair of Killer Pricing Articles for Startups
Must reads for any startup are Jeff Nolan’s “The Myth of Freemium and Related Pricing Topics” and VC Seth Levine’s “Pricing models, the freemium myth and why you may not be charging enough for your product.” I’ve written about my own experience with Freemiums and price changes at Helpstream. Some high points from these two [...]
Half of VMWare’s Customer Base Should’ve Bought SaaS
According to Network World (which got its data from a VMWare customer survey), half of VMWare’s customer base is using the product to virtualize Microsoft Exchange. Why in the world didn’t these customers buy a SaaS mail product? For all the hassle of managing Exchange servers in your own data center, it’s just not worth [...]
Clouds in Boxes – Super Size It – Want Storage and Servers With That?
I was absolutely mesmerized by Larry Ellison’s keynote at Oracle Open World – the winning of the America’s Cup was one of the best short films I have seen. And just as I thought this could be fun, the keynote started with Larry defining Cloud Computing…
Sean Parker, Leo Apotheker and lazy journalism
The College of Cardinals was sending out dark smoke signals for weeks. But when the white smoke finally came out and the bells chimed announcing a consensus candidate, the press went “whoa!” They should have been in Rome covering the Papal Conc…
