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Why India Will Become The SaaS Hotbed Of Tomorrow

YoungUpstarts

Just as Information Technology (IT) services transformed India in the 1990s, Software as a Service (SaaS) will dramatically shift the nation in the 2020s. Only one decade ago, SaaS products accounted for less than five percent of software. Every software company settled massive budgets to expand and cover any particular bugs.

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Gust Blog - Thoughts on startups by investors that fund them

Gust

And in January I saw that digital music overtook physical media for the first time in 2011, something I expected since 1998. I bought the Diamond Rio mp3 player in 1998. One of my earliest excursions into market research was working for a research firm doing a 1979 forecast on ATMs. Tim Berry , Founder, Palo Alto Software.

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How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

There seem to be two schools of thought on how to predict the future of information technology: looking at software or looking at hardware. Using just two data points, the modem I had in 1986 and the modem I had in 1998, the spreadsheet predicts that I’d have a 25 megabit/second connection in 2012. Napster arrived in June, 1999.

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Recurring Revenue is Magic

Seeing Both Sides

In 1998, Yom Kippur fell on September 30th. For me and my Jewish CEO boss, though, as officers of a public software company, September 30 was a tough day to be out of the office, sitting in synagogue atoning for a year full of sins. We priced our enterprise software in the form of a perpetual license. million to $22.5

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Former Head of Microsoft Israel Dreams of Billion Dollar Israeli Startups

VC Cafe

Moshe joined Microsoft in 1991 as a product manager after a career as a software developer. He worked his way up the corporate ladder; in 1998 he became VP of the Digital TV platform strategy, which did not pan out, and in 1999 he found an opportunity in Microsoft Internet (MSN) international.

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Cracking The Code: Death Sentence for SaaS.or for Lawson?

Cracking the Code

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. So where does Salesforces profitability stands today compared to the most successful on premise public software companies? traditional software is like cocaine--youre hooked. Labels: SaaS , software.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter March 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

Israel’s central bank, Morgan Stanley and other financial institutions have forecasted 3.5% Billing software company Amdocs has acquired mobile payments and messaging firm MX Telecom for $104 million in cash. and was founded in 1998. AMDOCS BUYS LEADING UK MOBILE COMPANY MX TELECOM. Net-Aye is a subsidiary of Bar-Tec Ltd.

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