Image via Wikipedia Have you heard? Food prices have been increasing. If this is news to you, to quote ’The Turk’ Sollozzo from The Godfather, ”Te salute, Don Corleone.” If you are like everyone else, you’ve felt the increases in your wallet. Now imagine the impact to a restaurant owner! MVaaS providers have achieved initial success in several key [...]
While I’m on the topic of sharing…The episode began as a nice family birthday celebration. Cupcakes for everyone. It ended in anger and sadness. My youngest son, age 4 at the time, and true cupcake aficionado, had consumed his prize very quickly. His older brother, no less a connoisseur, was delicately enjoying his treat. You may [...]
Do you remember Kirk Gibson’s walk off home run in game one of the 1988 World Series? The late Jack Buck’s famous radio call of the exciting moment was “I don’t believe what I just saw!” Well, try finding the footage on YouTube. Apparently YouTube does not have the “expressed written consent” from MLB. If you want to view [...]
The headline quote has been attributed to baseball great Yogi Berra. Although Yogi has said that “I never said half the things I really said”, this one sounds like pure 100% Yogi. The plain truth is that Berra is probably better known for his colorful quotes than he is for his baseball prowess. This is truly remarkable given his membership in [...]
As I covered in yesterday’s post, the valuations for SaaS companies have routinely exceeded that of the traditional software vendors. I suggested that there are reasons for this, and they may be different from what you expect. Phil Wainewright , a SaaS industry pioneer, recently wrote an intriguing post on this topic in ZDNet, “Want Cash? [...]
No, I’m not talking about the environment. I’m also not referring to the Celtics (See Matt Steinfort’s recent posts on the Boston Celtics Part I and Part II). Rather I’m drawing attention to the healthy revenue multiples of SaaS companies. A presentation (see page 17) recently at the SIIA On-Demand conference in Amsterdam by the Corum [...]
Abraham Maslow, an American Psychologist, developed a landmark theory on human motivation. Dubbed Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, the theory describes the paradigm that controls human motivations. In summary, people are motivated according to a hierarchy, which stretches from the most basic (psysiological needs/eating, breathing, etc.) to the most complex (self-actualization/morality, creativity, etc.). Prior to focusing [...]
As a continuation of my prior posts (Part 1 and Part 2), I’ll begin with a personal experience. I live within 5 miles of several Starbucks outlets. On a pleasant Saturday morning, I decided to stop by one of them. To my surprise, I was the only customer in the store – at 9:00AM. This should [...]
Previously I described the recent transformation process underway at Starbucks. You may have been asking “is this really necessary?” As evidenced by references in pop culture, the ubiquitous Starbucks outlet is stuff of legend, and comedy. Why would a company with so many locations need to remake itself? Answer – a really depressed stock valuation. SBUX was trading at [...]
Telecom Ramblings, a blog written by Rob Powell and a must read, has an excellent post about the evolving online video space. This subject matter is certainly near and dear to us at MVaaS. Perhaps one of our astute readers could appropriately add to the discussion…