Apr
15
2010
Over at Oasis Digital, we are in the (job) market for our first non-developer, non-project-manager, non-service-delivery-focussed full-time team member. The job post is on the Oasis Digital site; I thought I’d write about a bit more about the story here. Part of the challenge of running a software development consulting firm, is the tension between: [...]
Tags: hiring, marketing
Mar
27
2010
I initially wrote this content for the Oasis Digital web site; it was posted there for a while, then came down during a recent refresh: we are in the process of improving the Oasis Digital site, enhancing the essential while trimming the unnecessary. It turns out that this article hasn’t been helpful to our prospects [...]
Tags: design, strategy
Mar
26
2010
I registered and launched kylecordes.com 12 years ago, in March 1998. At the time I was working inside a manufacturing company personally creating and expanding an in-house ERP/CRM system. My intentions and expertise were almost entirely technical, and I named the web site “Kyle Cordes’s Software Site”, which I carried forward as the subtitle/tagline when [...]
Mar
03
2010
Here is the story of a substantial chunk of my professional life over the last five years. I didn’t tell this story in real time (for various good reasons), though I have mentioned bits of it in various talks. In 2004, I co-founded a vertical market Software as a Service firm, Mobile Workforce Management (MWM). [...]
Tags: commentary, java, postgresql, saas, top
Mar
02
2010
On Feb. 27 at St. Louis Innovation Camp 2010, I gave a talk on the SaaS business model. If you missed it, you might be interested in: A video recording of the SaaS talk. The SaaS talk handout as a PDF The SaaS talk slides as a PDF (also shown below) Transcript of the Talk, [...]
Tags: audio, money, saas
Feb
15
2010
Back in 2007 I gave a talk on Selling your Software as a Service. The room was quite small but tightly packed, and several people have asked since then if I plan to repeat it. (I went back and listened to the recording of that talk, on the linked page; it holds up quite well. [...]
Tags: conferences, saas