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...