It’s April 1, the day of the supposed massive deathstrike from the Conficker worm. This is extremely unlikely, because it conflicts with the interests of the botnet’s operators. Compare Ebola to the common cold. Ebola kills its victims within a few days, so outbreaks are rare...

When you’re starting a software company, your two biggest risks are: Technology risk — the risk that you can’t make the product you want Adoption risk — the risk that customers don’t want the product you make In my experience, startups usually overestimate technology...

Nothing's perfect (Part one of this series was called SaaS: First, the good news) While there are many inherently good things about the SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) business model, there are also some unique challenges. Higher cash requirements (Please deposit $24 for the next...

Whoopee! There are a lot of great things about the Software as a Service business model. Here are 7 of them… Cheap to start SaaS companies can be very cheap to start because you can leverage existing infrastructure (Amazon’s EC3, Google, etc.) and great open source tools and languages...