Jan 22nd 09 Posted by Jesse Kliza

SaaSGrid is Amazing!

  Sorry for the LONG period of inactivity.  Things have been extremly busy here at Apprenda.  We launched SaaSGrid for general availability back in the begining of December, and the response has been phenominal. Let me try and explain to you in a nutshell what SaaSGrid is, and why it’s game changing: SaaSGrid is a true cloud operating system. It’s not a software application, with some... read more

Nov 5th 08 Posted by Jesse Kliza

Thank You Autotask

Starting tomorrow, November 6th, I will no longer be Autotask’s Community Evangelist.  I’m extremely excited to be joining Apprenda as Director of Business Development. The work that Apprenda is doing is game changing, and there is no place I’d rather be at this point in my career. I’ve been with Autotask for 2.5 years now, and it’s been an awesome ride. Just over a year ago... read more

Oct 14th 08 Posted by Jesse Kliza

Freshbooks Announces Quarterly Industry Benchmarks

FreshBooks Industry Benchmarks from FreshBooks on Vimeo. Today Freshbooks announced that they will be publishing aggregate benchmark data on a quarterly basis. They’ve been sending out this data and more to customers for some time now, but now they’re going to publish some of the data to the general public. Check it out, and if you are a SaaS company, take note and learn from these guys. They... read more

Oct 8th 08 Posted by Jesse Kliza

Interview with Dean Isaji of ThinkMentalModels

As someone who’s always been fascinated by the human mind and how we think and make decisions, I was very interested in the concept of multiple mental models, outlined by Charles Munger in Poor Charlie’s Almanac. Back in May, I was introduced to ThinkMentalModels.com, and conversed with Dean Isaji, author of the ThinkMentalModels compilation. I recently had a chance to catch up with Dean and... read more