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Fog Creek Compensation

www.joelonsoftware.com

Fog Creek explicitly recognizes that many good software engineers have no desire whatsoever to do "management" or to take on a formal personnel management role. One of the purposes of the Fog Creek Professional Ladder is to create a career path with promotions for engineers who simply do not want to do management stuff at all.

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9 Things That Tell You To Pivot

YoungUpstarts

Pivoting’ is spoken about a lot in the tech world. I spoke to a founder recently about a pivot; they offered an ad tech solution to enterprise clients and had just spent six months on a new feature. However, it is worth reviewing your content and message you are sending to your users. Business architecture pivot.

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Cracking The Code: The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008.

Cracking the Code

The top performing SaaS companies typically achieve annual customer renewal rates above 90% - with most of the churn due to death (bankruptcies) or marriage (acquisitions) - and over 100% renewals on a dollar value basis due to up-sells into this installed base. Cashflow is the other key metric.