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Wall St. Leaves Money on Table for Subscription Companies

Wall St. Leaves Money on Table for Subscription Companies

By Denis Pombriant on January 30, 2013

Look, we know the old truism that if you don’t have customers and profits you don’t have a business, you have a hobby.  But could we please get a little balance on the profit idea? Emerging companies typically don’t declare profits because they use excess cash to fuel growth.  Anything left over is plowed back […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged CNBC, Netflix, netsuite, SaaS, salesforce.com, subscriptions, Taleo, Tien Tzuo, Wall Street, WebEx, Zuora | 2 Responses

Kudos for Zuora

Kudos for Zuora

By Denis Pombriant on April 4, 2012

On demand billing and payments company, Zuora, has been named the OnDemand 100 Company of the Year by AlwaysOn, a Silicon Valley web property that tracks activities in emerging companies. As you know if you’ve been here before, Zuora was one of the earliest movers in the market for on demand billing services for companies […]

Posted in Business | Tagged CRM, salesforce.com, subscriptions, Zuora

Is SaaS Dead? No. Neither is Debate.

Is SaaS Dead? No. Neither is Debate.

By Zoli Erdos on July 8, 2010

We’ve had email dead, resumes dead, wikis dead themes, now it’s apparently time for the SaaS is Dead meme, thanks to a recently published Gartner report.   My favorite quote from the report: SaaS is not a panacea, and companies need to evaluate and understand the trade-offs that SaaS presents Indeed. Here’s another quote from Gartner […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged enterprise software, gartner, netsuite, On Demand, on-premise, SaaS, shelfware, software upgrades, subscriptions, tco, Zuora | 4 Responses

Tips from 2009 for a prosperous 2010

Tips from 2009 for a prosperous 2010

By Phil Wainewright on December 31, 2009

A recurring theme ever since I started writing this blog (and indeed before) has been my concern to see more robust business models adopted by SaaS and cloud players. The second most-trafficked posting here in 2009 (and the most liked by those expressing a preference) was What have we done?, which appeared in February at […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Business Models, Free, freemium, google, Revenue, small business, subscriptions, Viral marketing, Year in Review | 1 Response

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