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  1. Austin Ogre

    Choosing a technology stack...

    WEB/DIGITAL 
    Good questions and I'm not sure I have a good answer. The user management needs of the SaaS solutions I've built have been pretty unique. There was no existing framework that really understood our concept of customer or seat for any of them unfortunately. There do appear to be some frameworks...
  2. Austin Ogre

    How do you price a SaaS offering?

    MARKETING SAAS / APPS 
    So: - Do we price per seat? or per feature? Short answer? Yes. I think a large portion of your customer base might only want a single seat. The few who want multiple seats (in the same account) are likely to want some additional auditing, reporting and permissions as well. Is that going to be...
  3. Austin Ogre

    Companies are entities, and hide behind human resources. They have no soul.

    EXECUTION 
    True, but I have had employers at non-profitable businesses treat me well. No business has ever treated me poorly for very long (profitable or otherwise). @eliquid is not wrong, when ownership changes all your hard work will likely count for nothing. The Slow Lane is a tool to learn from (some...
  4. Austin Ogre

    Increased My Hourly Price ----> Daily Interview Invitations + I need help regarding mindset

    Good for you! I'll share a secret from the slow lane perspective (since I that's where I work now). If you had the expertise to copy write for me I'd recommend you at far more than $70 per hour. Copy writing solves a pain point for you customers and good copywriters are hard to come by.
  5. Austin Ogre

    How do you price a SaaS offering?

    MARKETING SAAS / APPS 
    It's all good. I just want to try an be helpful. I won't say I'll never hold an opinion that is unpopular or argue with someone with 3.2 million in a rep bank. Keeping each other honest is a good thing. And @grindmode is not wrong, I'm not currently in "fast mode" (hell, I haven't even read the...
  6. Austin Ogre

    How do you price a SaaS offering?

    MARKETING SAAS / APPS 
    Hey sorry if you feel I was spamming, I was just trying to provide some insight to @maverick based on my experience and thought it was a broad enough topic that others might be interested in a separate discussion on SaaS pricing in general. You're right, I'm not actively trying to build a new...
  7. Austin Ogre

    Serial Cloud Entrepeneur

    INTRO 
    That's an interesting niche, question. I think there are a few SaaS frameworks which can be used for rapid prototyping. Techello is one, though I've never used it. The 2 primary keys (for me) when thinking about building a SaaS solution are solving the multi-tenancy problem and roles based...
  8. Austin Ogre

    Serial Cloud Entrepeneur

    INTRO 
    @Scot the pricing thread is up: How do you price a SaaS offering? It's a little disjoined; hard to talk generically about something that has so many possible moving parts.
  9. Austin Ogre

    How do you price a SaaS offering?

    MARKETING SAAS / APPS 
    In my intro thread @maverick asked a couple of questions I thought deserved their own discussion. Hopefully this is the right forum to have the pricing discussion as it relates to SaaS. This is an incredibly broad topic. I promise that plenty of insightful people like @Scot will be able to...
  10. Austin Ogre

    Serial Cloud Entrepeneur

    INTRO 
    Ok, technology stack thread is up: Choosing a technology stack... Pricing is a much more interesting topic and I think @Scot is going to have something to say when I post that for sure. ;)
  11. Austin Ogre

    Choosing a technology stack...

    WEB/DIGITAL 
    @maverick asked me a couple of great questions in my intro thread and I felt like they deserved a broader conversation so I've moved them here. Hopefully others will add their thoughts as well. I've worked on 3 major SaaS start-ups and each of them used really different technology stacks...
  12. Austin Ogre

    Serial Cloud Entrepeneur

    INTRO 
    Thanks @maverick nice to be here. If it's OK I'm going to answer those two posts separately in the Internet, Apps, Mobile forum because I htink they are great questions and it'd be interesting to get the thoughts of others as well. 30 minutes til my next meeting so I'll try to bang out a quick...
  13. Austin Ogre

    Is content marketing a load of crap?

    MARKETING 
    Crappy content is absolutely content marketing, but what is says is we're crap (and we think you're an idiot so we're wasting your time by giving you crap). Hellofa brand.... Effective content, valuable content can be an effective marketing tool, but it's often only peripherally focused on...
  14. Austin Ogre

    What stage to patent and seek lawyers

    WEB/DIGITAL 
    Echoing David, I can only speak from my own experience. 1. At the companies I've worked for the advice from patent attorneys was that we shouldn't do our own patent searches. We should concentrate on building a solution and then let the patent attorneys do the research to determine if there...
  15. Austin Ogre

    Scaling Question: Outsourced Customer Service

    PEOPLE 
    I've worked in some large scale SaaS operations (in a couple of them I was there prior to landing our first customer). I'm huge fan of exceptional customer support for building passionate customers who become advocates for your solution. All of my customers have been subscription customers, so...
  16. Austin Ogre

    Serial Cloud Entrepeneur

    INTRO 
    @Scot haven't read the book (yet), but it's now in my queue.
  17. Austin Ogre

    Serial Cloud Entrepeneur

    INTRO 
    Greetings folks.. I'm a technologist from Austin, Texas. I've worked for a number of early stage cloud start-ups (SaaS and WaaS primarily) and I've also started a number of personal ventures. All of the cloud start-ups exited with some level of success, the personal ventures... well, I...
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