"Never before have SaaS companies spent SO MUCH for SO LITTLE!" With one LinkedIn line, David Spitz described the biggest challenge in SaaS. CACs have reached likely all-time highs, at a time new logo growth is more important than ever. Will the "Year of Efficiency" become the "Decade of Efficiency"?
"Never before have SaaS companies spent SO MUCH for SO LITTLE!" With one LinkedIn line, David Spitz described the biggest challenge in SaaS. CACs have reached likely all-time highs, at a time new logo growth is more important than ever. Will the "Year of Efficiency" become the "Decade of Efficiency"?
I've grown fond of comparing platform economies with real world economies. "Platforms" are fairly abstract things - intangible for most - so relating them with familiar concepts and principles makes them easier to understand.
It's been fun to watch the growth of Threads. Earning 20% of the weekly active user base of Twitter within two weeks is impressive, even for Zuck.
Half-way through 2012, you’d have been forgiven for thinking that Facebook was doing a MySpace. In other words, Facebook was on a fast path to slow, painful decline.
Are native apps dead yet? Are browsers and the web still the future of mobile? What is a browser, anyway?
Hand axes were made to a pretty unvarying design for over a million years — 30,000 generations — whilst computer mice were invented less than a century ago and already have evolved to the point of being obsolete.
From enabling passengers to embark and disembark trains, to vertebra-crushing shoes, and operating systems like Microsoft Windows, “platform” has been used to describe many different things, in many different contexts, over a long period of time.
