Software Production Functions and Recombining Ideas
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Software Production Functions and Recombining Ideas
Large market size💰: By building opinionated software, you deliberately leave a large share of the market unexploited — it’s not a “lowest common denominator” approach. Fortunately, the overall category of productivity software represents a very large market (mainly because it’s industry-agnostic). Therefore, even a slice of the market is often suf... See more
Felix Schmitt • The Era of Opinionated Productivity Software: Superhuman, Roam, What’s Next? | HackerNoon
The most important question as an investor these days, or a founder or executive making a career decision is: Going industry by industry, how much refactoring is there to be done?
I think that there has been a shift towards this very formulaic driven growth in enterprise software which is very unhealthy. There is a calculation of well here's my CAC, here's my LTV, here's my payback period, I'm ready to sell, let me hire 50 sales reps and let's push this into the market, and three years down the line all the assumptions that ... See more
Chetan Puttagunta • Go Slow to Go Fast: Software Building and Investing
If you want to see the future of B2B software, look at what Excel users are hacking together in spreadsheets today. Excel’s success has inspired the creation of software whose combined enterprise value dwarfs that of Excel alone.
Benjamin Rollert • Excel Never Dies
Then-CEO Eric Schmidt shared a simple but extremely effective framework to resolve these tensions: 70-20-10. Google would devote 70 percent of its resources to the core business, 20 percent to emerging products, and 10 percent to research and development for future products.