Research
It was a brutal day today for HP (Hewlett-Packard): it kills its tablet business (HP TouchPad) and is exiting PC business
Many of us is still pondering on the Google Motorola Mobility deal and today we (WSJ.com) heard that HP it’s quitting its PC business by a spinoff. At the same time, HP is shutting down its tablets and smartphone business so we can now say goodbye to HP TouchPad for good. Yesterday we could read…
Read MoreCloud ISV: What technology will you be using when supporting different mobile and tablet devices?
I explained in my previous blog post that the cloud era is here to stay and with this new era, there are also quite a few technologies that the ISV has to select to build a solution. One key thing is to select the cloud platform but an increasingly important technology that the ISV has…
Read MoreIs there a Magic Number for a SaaS business?
We have a tendency to find a magic formula for everything and this applies also to SaaS companies. In my research in this topic, I have found a few resources that give some direction of how to evaluate the healthiness of a SaaS business. It is easy to conclude that Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR) or…
Read MoreWhat types of influencers are increasing your web-site or blog traffic?
The Internet has really changed how we can be heard without really being physically seen. My company has done a bunch of influencer intelligence ecosystem research studies in the competitive intelligence domain and I get constantly questions from my clients how and what they should do to be heard in the cyberspace. If you are…
Read MoreLaw #10 of Bessemer’s Top 10 Cloud Computing Laws and the Business Model Canvas –Cloudonomics requires that you plan your fuel stops very carefully
I have so far reviewed nine laws of Bessemer Top 10 and with this last one is almost like a summary of the other nine laws. The reality of SaaS-based companies is that the biggest question they have is how to finance the growth and how to ensure that the Committed Monthly Recurring Revenue (CMRR)…
Read MoreISVs are re-learning Business Models from multiple different perspectives using Business Model Canvas
The past year has been exciting time from a research perspective. I have spent several months pondering, reading and talking to software vendors about the change that is taking place in the business models. I have been lucky to be the leader of more than 20 software products, both as head of development (CTO) as…
Read MoreThe angst of an author and about writing process
This is my second book (if one does not count my doctoral dissertation of 330 pages as a monograph) and I have to say that I have found my own way of building the content. It is much easier that with the first one, and I now know what works best for me as a…
Read MoreLooking for expats and immigrants to be interviewed in an upcoming book
I am in the process of doing interviews to my upcoming book from Talentum. This book is about living a life outside your own native country with all of the different things that you will be facing during the years. I am looking for individuals, families to be interviewed in topics such as: 1) Reasons…
Read MoreMy weekend reads and the topics: Brian Tracy, Howard Gardner, Tal Ben-Chakar, Wayne W. Dyer and Craig Ferguson
What a beautiful weekend, my decisions a week ago has now freed me to work on my book, do some reading and build the “story board” that I have in my head. When I was around 30, I run into the motivational speaker and author Brian Tracy as I read a book from the Finnish Jari…
Read MoreBook review of Sonja Lyubomirsky’s “The How of Happiness”
I run into this book when doing research for my own upcoming book. I wanted to know what happiness was based on and this book had lots of recommendations in Amazon.com so I decided to go with the flow. I was not dissapointed. It explained to me perfectly how happiness is constructed, based on empirical…
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