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Results Breakthrough Network: Putting the You and Me Back into Networking

Jun 22, 2018 | 0 Comments

In 2017, Corporate America spent $28B on training programs to improve efficiency, increase productivity and up level staff and executives. Yet, according to Training Industry Weekly, less than 8% of those programs were fever completed. While there are dozens of...

When Dull is Divine: B-File Brings the Bucks in Insuretech

Mar 21, 2019 | 0 Comments

Over the last several years, the SaaS Revolution has sparked the release of literally thousands of new applications and apps, with the current trend being to release a flood of new programs with chirpy names such as Tinkersynth, Upvoty, Toky, (ending names with...

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Executive Compensation

Software CEO Compensation 2016, Executive Summary

Jan 19, 2016 | 0 Comments

(Please check our recent RPE and R&D metrics for a listing of the firms listed in the software CEO compensation Benchmark 53 report.) For thesBM53 reports, we do not break out compensation by base, bonuses, and various stock and options packages, simply base and...

Software CEO Compensation 2016 (Softletter subscriber-access only)

Jan 21, 2016 | 0 Comments

(Please check our recent RPE and R&D metrics for a listing of the firms listed in the Software CEO Compensation Benchmark 53 report.) For these BM53 reports, we do not break out compensation by base, bonuses, and various stock and options packages, simply base and...

Book Reviews

A Blueprint for Building the Virtual Company: A Review of The Invisible Organization by Mitch Russo, CEO of DiiDit

Dec 27, 2016 | Books

Purchase on Amazon The age of SaaS has reoriented thinking about how corporations should function and be structured. If an application can reside on servers scattered around the globe, a development group located overseas or on another continent, a customer service...

The Lighter Side of Softletter

A Lifetime of Regret: A Post Mortem of Steve Jobs the Movie

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When I was a boy my father used to take me during the Christmas season to model railroad layouts in Connecticut and New Jersey. My grandfather worked for the U.S. postal system on a mail car during and after the Great Depression. My dad, in an effort to remain...

An Interview with Daniel Kottke, the Man Who Built Some of Steve Jobs’ First Macintoshes (and Witness to the Last Steve Jobs Reality Distortion Field)

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Daniel Kottke was Apple employee number 12 and at one point a close friend of Steve Jobs, meeting him at Reed College in 1972. He accompanied Jobs on what has become a semi-legendary trip to India before Apple’s founding in 1976, an event portrayed on film and widely...

Thanks, Dan Lyons. Now Anyone over 40 Really IS Unemployable in High-Tech. An Open Letter to HubSpot, Brian Halligan, and Dharmesh Shah

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Dear Brian and Dharmesh: I have to admit that when I read a while ago that Dan Lyons had been hired by SaaS firm HubSpot, I was gobsmacked. I mean, Dan Lyons, former technology editor for Newsweek, which itself was started at the same time Moses was publishing the Ten...