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| The Monthly Journal for Venture Partners and Enterprise Software Executives |
| May 2008 |
In This Issue
 Top 10 Laws for Being ‘SaaS-y’
Utilizing SharePoint to Serve-up ‘Gourmet’ Business Solutions
You Vote: Is the pace of software M&A increasing again?
1Q08 Software Industry Mergers and Acquisitions
Executive Job Listings
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Top 10 Laws for Being ‘SaaS-y’
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| By Byron Deeter, Partner, Bessemer Venture Partners |
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In the emerging sector of Software as a Service, one of the biggest challenges for many of the top CEOs is the lack of successful role-model businesses. There are still only a handful of public pure-play SaaS businesses, and thus the body of ‘best practices’ is very limited. Ironically, on top of this, one of the hardest things veteran software CEOs have to do when they start to run a SaaS company is to forget much of what they know about running a software company. |
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Utilizing SharePoint to Serve-up ‘Gourmet’ Business Solutions
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| By Eric Baughman, Director Training and Education, CorasWorks Corporation |
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What can a TV dinner teach us about solutions on the SharePoint platform? I experienced this little lesson during a recent visit to the supermarket. In the frozen food section, I noticed a five course meal in a box and questioned why they’ve lost popularity. They are inexpensive, convenient, cover the spectrum of food groups, and even include dessert – all on the same plate. It’s not unlike off-the-shelf software or business applications, where we’re given a number of pre-set features, served up together in a single package, all to fulfill a particular need. In both cases, however, there is evidence that consumers want and need more. They want more flexibility and choices, better quality, and usually need it all within certain time and budget constraints. |
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1Q08 Software Industry Mergers and Acquisitions
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| By Ken Bender, Managing Director, and Kris Beible, Analyst, Software Equity Group, LLC |
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A complementary copy of Software Equity Group’s full 1Q08 Software Industry Equity Report, which analyzes software industry public company stock market performance, initial public offerings, mergers and acquisitions, and venture capital and private equity financings, can be downloaded by visiting www.softwareequity.com. |
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