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When Will Facebook's Bubble Burst?

When Will Facebook’s Bubble Burst?

By Phil Wainewright on January 5, 2011

Many have detected signs of irrational bubble economics in the news that investment bank Goldman Sachs has brokered a $500 million investment in Facebook, giving the social networking website a total value of around $50 billion. It seems that excitement about social media is reaching fever pitch, leading to enormous pre-IPO valuations for the likes […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged businessmodel, economics, Facebook, socialmedia, venturecapital | 1 Response

GoodData Embeds Self-Serve Analytics

GoodData Embeds Self-Serve Analytics

By Phil Wainewright on November 4, 2010

There’s more and more data being produced and made available in the world today from a variety of sources, some new, some old. That drives demand for analytics capabilities so that people can derive some useful, actionable meaning from all…

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged analytics, BI, businessmodel, economics, GoodData, integration, multitenancy, softwareasaservice, Zendesk

Could Dormant Pricing Stir SMB Market for SaaS?

Could Dormant Pricing Stir SMB Market for SaaS?

By Phil Wainewright on June 7, 2010

One of the dark secrets of the subscription business is the profit margins earned from subscribers who still pay, but who no longer use the service. This is a facet of the business that predates the SaaS industry by many…

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged businessmodel, netsuite, ondemand, pricing, salesforce.com, small business, smb, software as a service, softwareasaservice, subscription

Cloud Takes First Bite At HP

Cloud Takes First Bite At HP

By Phil Wainewright on June 1, 2010

The loss of 9,000 jobs and a $1 billion charge are being described as the cost of HP’s transition to cloud (see all Techmeme coverage). Alas, I fear this is just the downpayment as cloud computing begins an inexorable reshaping…

Posted in Business | Tagged businessmodel, cloudcomputing, Employment, hp, layoffs

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