Estimating the size of a market segment is one of the fundamental activities of software company strategic planning and product marketing. Depending upon the company stage, this task can fall to a company founder in a startup, a product manager in a slightly more mature company, or a strategic planner in a large software company. […]
Planning your SaaS MVP
Planning a new product using the concept of an MVP – an acronym for “Minimum Viable Product” has become very hot in the technology world in recent years. Of course, this is really just modern terminology for an age old marketing concept. But a software or SaaS MVP is still an important concept and very […]
Software Product Marketing: Horizontal vs. Vertical
An important discussion for most software companies–both in the software product planning stage and in the downstream active software product marketing phase–is the manner in which the product will be marketed. The decisions to be made in each of these phases are separate, but closely related. The discussions on this topic need to happen regardless […]