Vertical SaaS and industry-specific software
Software written for one industry, sold at high retention and low churn. There is no book on this model: the reference material is Constellation Software's letters and a handful of blogs. These are the nearest useful books.
7 books · 1 people behind it
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- Obviously AwesomeApril Dunford, 2019
- Crossing the ChasmGeoffrey A. Moore, 1991
- Hidden Champions of the Twenty-First CenturyHermann Simon, 2009
The people behind it 1
Each person holds a book in this entry or names it in their own tags.
Strategists 1
Books 7
Geoffrey A. Moore · 1991 · Why technology products stall between early adopters and the mainstream.
William N. Thorndike · 2012 · Eight capital allocators who ran decentralised holding companies.
Hermann Simon · 2009 · Niche market leadership as a category; the nearest thing to a theory.
April Dunford · 2019 · Positioning for software that serves one industry rather than everyone.
Rob Walling, Mike Taber · 2010 · Deliberately niche software businesses and their unit economics.
Aaron Ross, Jason Lemkin · 2016 · Sales mechanics for markets where the addressable customer list is finite.
Rob Walling, Jason Cohen · 2022 · Bootstrapped SaaS economics: pricing, churn, plateau.