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Revenue Development

K9 Ventures

We really were doing the i-thing before Apple came out with its first iMac in 1998. So the departments either didn’t have the capacity to pay or it would be an endless sales-cycle, where we would spend lots of time on the sales, but it still wouldn’t close. Google’s first business model wasn’t based on advertising.

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Delivering software as a service

BeyondVC

Adam Bosworth has an interesting post on the evolution of software and why software delivered as a service will be the business model of the future. From an evolutionary perspective, the ASP business model is quite interesting to examine. For the vendor, it makes it: 1. the economics speak for themselves.