Sometime in late 2015, I built my first website. Or rather, I purchased a subscription on weebly.com, a website builder, and proceeded to upload photos and drag and drop pre-configured modules into a blank screen. The process was easy, which helped as I was clueless; the layout was unoriginal and austere, which sufficed as the […]
Several weeks ago, the stock of Ellie Mae, a SaaS that automates the grueling task of underwriting residential mortgages, got hammered when the company reported revenue weakness on lower than expected industry refinancing volumes and longer than expected ramp times for larger enterprise customers, prompting management to dramatically cut its full year revenue growth guidance […]
It seems not too long ago, business arrangements between application providers were called partnerships….now they carry distended labels like platforms or ecosystems. Platforms come in various guises. Some, like eBay or AirBnB, don’t create products for direct consumption, but instead provide the connective tissue for various constituents of the platform to connect, taking a cut […]