software

“All these VCs, we all talk about investing in startups, disrupting antiquated industries using software. That's what we love investing in. We do that all day long. Yet, most venture capital firms are run devoid of software.”

“Retail wholesale revenue is as good as software. It is like clockwork every 20 days. If you have a product that repurchases, meaning that that's the good sign, right? If people are coming back into their grocery habits or any of those, like it's like clockwork…”

“And like one of the big differences I learned between services and software is in services, a growth assistant or ampush, you could kind of tell me your problem in a vague term. Oh, here's my issue. And I'd say, well, here's a human. This human can probably ad…”

“Software is great at long-term enterprise value and terrible for a short-term cashflow. And so the agency kind of bridges that gap.”

“There's a general sentiment that the form factor that we interact with on a daily basis, i.e. Phones, is great, but maybe it isn't the thing that will kind of be the container for the next step in software.”

“I think you're just going to start to see a lot of creators go the software route over Traditionally what they've been going for, which is the CPG route.”

“In our minds at 37 signals, we're actually, we've been pretty conscious lately, last few months specifically, actually been talking about this more internally and we're trying to make some really sort of Weirder things.”

“I actually tend to think you should be selling software, but you can always start by selling ads and events.”

“Every export button in software represents a business opportunity. So think about this. When a user clicks export, what are they saying to us? They're basically saying this software doesn't need, doesn't do what I need to, so I'm taking my data elsewhere to do…”

“Every person who has software is like, I can't add urgency because this is software and I can't say there's only 10 seats left, et cetera. Like you don't need to add urgent. And they're also like, I don't want to discount all the time. Like you don't need to d…”

“This is what click funnels do. They run these events and the goal of the, these events is to fund their software that they then sell to more people at the events. And it's like this very circular thing.”

“Now, you don't, you're not going to create software and invite them to the software. You're going to create agents, and you're going to invite them to the agents, and then the agents are going to do work that creates value for these companies. So that's the mi…”

“This is actually how I'm thinking about everything I do now and like how I buy software in particular is how robust the API is.”

“Where money changes hands, i.e., you know, in this example, negotiate scope or price, collect deposit, order materials for suppliers. That's where you're going to be able to create some like wedge in software and sort of take a piece of that pie.”

“Now I just think software is free. Anyone can make it. Anyone can rip it off.”

“All I can say is software is a worse business now than it was five years ago.”

“Software was an incredible business for the last 20 years. Building SaaS, and there's still opportunities in, in building SaaS, building consumer mobile apps, enterprise apps, but the mode is, is moving to hardware”

“I would start with services first, so you do the work by hand, you build the same system for five companies, 10 companies, and you notice the pain that repeats, and then that's when you turn it into software. That's all, and that's also how you avoid building …”