article thumbnail

Why India Will Become The SaaS Hotbed Of Tomorrow

YoungUpstarts

All the ingredients for Indian SaaS dominance are here: From producing some of the world’s best developers to competing on cost and producing quality products of global standard. Only one decade ago, SaaS products accounted for less than five percent of software. percent in 1998 to 7.7 percent in 2017.

India 113
article thumbnail

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. Both products were innovative leaders. You need to explore more common and more productive approaches for getting your startup moving forward.

Startup 180
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Organization That Failed to Innovate – Avoid Their Fate

ReadWriteStart

In 1998, Google founders were ready to sell it to Yahoo for USD one million — but Yahoo refused the opportunity. However, the product was ahead of its time. Multiple tools and technology available can enable innovation in organizations, no-code software development being a pioneer in them.

article thumbnail

Hazards of Hiring

www.ericsink.com

The Business of Software. Software Development. After that, Ill finish the article by saying a few things about the specific challenges of hiring software developers. For small independent software vendors (ISVs), my rule is: Dont fill a position until after the need for that position is painfully clear.

Hiring 40
article thumbnail

Finding Technical Cofounders Is Hard

rob.by

A business person may have equal or more valuable skills than a software person, but they are not universally understood in the simplistic way that software people’s skills are. Ask anybody what a software developer does and they can give you the one-sentence “makes software” answer.

article thumbnail

Philosopher Versus MBA

Reid Hoffman

When I decided I wanted to start a company, I realized that I needed to pick up certain skills first, like product management, knowledge of online services, and a practical understanding of commercial software development. It’s okay to prepare yourself first. Like many first time founders, I ran over that landmine.

article thumbnail

Philosopher Versus MBA

Reid Hoffman

When I decided I wanted to start a company, I realized that I needed to pick up certain skills first, like product management, knowledge of online services, and a practical understanding of commercial software development. It’s okay to prepare yourself first. Like many first time founders, I ran over that landmine.