Two weeks ago, I attended the SaaStr annual conference in San Francisco with several thousand other early stage software company founders and leaders. Ten thousand people gathered in the heart of Silicon Valley in packed breakout rooms and busy hallways. This...
The software industry has almost finished its 10-year conversion to SaaS (software as a service). It’s software that runs on PCs, web browsers and mobile devices, and is centrally hosted on servers outside our data centers (in “the cloud”). This technology...
If you are like most early stage entrepreneurs, you set aggressive goals. You probably got a lot done this year, but you still came up short on achieving everything on your plan. Now it’s time to assess how you did this year and determine what needs to happen...
A few months ago, I had a long conversation over dinner with entrepreneur and investor Michael Dornbrook. I got to hear how his startup company went from long-suffering video game creator to one of the most successful companies of its time. Michael has a great story....
A couple months ago, I had lunch with some fellow tech entrepreneurs in downtown Phoenix. It was a really special lunch. Across the table from me was Steve Case, the billionaire co-founder of AOL. He is now a venture capitalist, author and business leader with the...
