That take out wasn’t for the office?

22% of survey respondents admitted to having expensed personal items pretending they are for business. (From Procurify)

Google Cracks Down on its Socialist Rebels (but Stays Woke)

A former (emphasis on former) Google employee recently wrote a fairly long and weepy article on her

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

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 the diminutive “y” is currently all the range, Culrs (vowel dropping is […]

Windows 10 S: The End of Free Range Software

Microsoft wants this on your plate but not in your computer The high-tech industry is full of people opposed to GMOs and in favor of free range chickens, but when it comes to software, putting code in cages is currently all the rage. What we tend to think of as the modern software industry started […]

Shaun Russell Rocks SaaS Product Management Like It’s 1999

Shaun Russell Goes Future to the Back A few weeks ago  I received a mailing from, I think, the BPMA (Boston Product Management Association) whose main headline was a link to a video entitled Things Nobody Told Me About Being a Product Manager given by a nice looking fellow of the name Shaun Russell, who, […]

Pollfish: The App as Channel

Pollfish: Is that Smartphone a Channel in Your Pocket or Do You Just Want to Ask Me Something?   Calm down, California. You’ll get over this. Someday Unless you were sealed in a time capsule circa 2000 alongside your Nokia 3390 (dig that 459-character text limit. Wish Twitter did that) you’ve heard of apps. While […]

Napster Nazguled the Music Biz, but What the Internet Tooketh Away, the Cloud Giveth Back

Napster Nazguled the Music Biz, but What the Internet Tooketh Away, the Cloud Giveth Back Once upon a time, there was a wonderful land of music, joy, and love. This land was known as “The Music Biz” and it was inhabited by handsome guy troubadours and gorgeous girl chanteuses who every day woke up and […]

Key Highlights from Softletter’s Software Company Staffing Report, Part II of II

The following information is excerpted from Softletter’s forthcoming Software Company Staffing Report. Very little information or data is available on this topic in the industry and given the recent controversy over such topics as outsourcing, H-1B, the relocation of jobs from the U.S. to international venues, the possible misuse of H-1B by companies such as […]

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

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 group operating out of Southeast Asia, and marketing communications provided by a bevy of […]

Key Highlights from Softletter’s Software Company Staffing Report, Part I of II

Key Highlights from Softletter’s Software Company Staffing Report, Part I of II (The following information is excerpted from Softletter’s forthcoming Software Company Staffing Report. Very little information or data is available on this topic in the industry and given the recent controversy over such topics as outsourcing, H-1B, the relocation of jobs from the U.S. […]

A SaaS Planning and Transition Tool For SaaS Companies

If you’re a SaaS company, you’re probably a major consumer of SaaS technology. Today’s cloud companies have access to a wide variety of tools and systems, including Email, SEO, marketing automation, project managers, social networking tools, sales contact management and on and on. It’s all available and in just about every case, SaaS systems offer […]

Using SaaS Agent Programs to Build Revenues for Your Company, Part II of II

  A sample of Mitch Russo’s photography. You can download many of his works for free. This is not a piece of CGI Mitch Russo is a software industry pioneer who in 1985 founded Timeslips Corp, which he in turn sold to Sage Plc when he became  the company’s COO of U.S. operations. While at Timeslips […]