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business
- The Power of the SaaS Business Model
Weāre about to head to SaaStr Annual again this year, an annual gathering of companies all focused on the same challenges of how to build and grow SaaS businesses. Iāve had some thoughts on SaaS business models that Iā¦
- Subscription Pricing Models
Since Apple changed their subscription pricing options for App Store developers back in 2016, several high-profile apps that have made the switch from fixed pricing to the subscription model. TextExpander, Day One, anā¦
- Recent Links: Glue, Org Charts, and Patreonās Growth
āļø Amazon Announces AWS Glue AWS Glue is a fully managed extract, transform, and load (ETL) service that makes it easy for customers to prepare and load their data for analytics. You simply point AWS Glue to your dataā¦
- Weekly Links: Ambient Computers, Drones, and Focus
š» The Disappearing Computer For his final weekly column of his long career, Walt Mossberg talks about what he calls "ambient computing", the penetration of IoT, AR, VR, and computers throughout our lives: I expect thā¦
- Weekly Links: Cartography's Future, Interactive Maps, and Building Moats
š Cartography in the Age of Autonomous Vehicles An excellent, extremely detailed analysis from Justin O'Bierne on how maps and cartography might evolve if autonomous vehicles negate our need for turn-by-turn navigatiā¦
- Weekly Links: AI, APFS, and MBA Mondays
Trying out a new thing here to document 3 links that caught my interest over the past week. Sometimes they might be related, sometimes not. It'll be an experiment to journal the things I was reading at the time, for pā¦
- The Box That Built the Modern World
Great piece about the modularization of shipping and how it powered global trade. More than any other single innovation, the shipping containerāthere are millions out there, all just like the ones stacked on the Hongā¦
- A Quick Guide for New Developers
This entire post comes with a caveat: I am not a software engineer. I do build a software product, and work with a bunch of people way smarter than me, though. Iām experienced enough to have an opinion on the topic. Iā¦
- Future of Geo
I presented the day-two keynote to the CFGIS Workshop, talking about what the future of the geography and GIS discipline holds — new technologies for collaboration and sharing, the growth of the geo community anā¦
- Software Pricing and SaaS
Jeff Lawson of Twilio gave this talk on SaaS pricing at the Business of Software conference last year: Everyone in the SaaS product business should watch this. Great approach to thinking through putting prices on yourā¦