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

Cracking the Code

Given the high cost of capital for private SaaS companies, wise executives will often offer slight MRR discounts to customers in exchange for quarterly or annual pre-payment terms, and provide incentives for their sales force accordingly. This is a guiding architectural principle for best-of-breed SaaS companies.

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Special: The 56 Israeli Companies Exhibiting in Mobile World Congress 2011

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In addition, Cellguideā€™s GPSense engine is chip agnostic and could use pseudo- ranges from any GNSS receiver thus creating a fully featured locaiton and navigation engine. Dasur’s solution is based on a unique, patented pattern recognition engine. The modular architecture and scalability of the solutions enables.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

Nothing essential that I disagree with you in your post, but when read by other people with minimal software engineering experience, they can have too high expectations. Would love to hear your insights sometime into how to partner with engineers. Security is hard to get right. Thanks again for the good tips. And so forth.