by Robert Solomon | Nov 8, 2023 | B2B Software, Industry Cloud, Pricing, Real Estate, Vertical Cloud
The District of Columbia, where I live, just sued RealPage, a real estate management platform, and 14 DC landlords for violating its antitrust statute. The complaint provides fascinating reading about pricing and software platforms. (Note: I’m not a lawyer,...
by Robert Solomon | Dec 11, 2022 | AP Automation, B2B Software, Payments, Pricing |
I love a story about how a company dominated its industry primarily by changing its business model. (See here and here.) Ticketmaster, which has been in the news lately, has such a story buried in its past. The Prior Business Model: Ticketron ...
by Robert Solomon | Oct 9, 2019 | B2B Software, Indirect Spend, Pricing, Public Sector
As taxpayers, we should want to know how well our dollars are spent. At the Federal level, most of these dollars are spent on social security, healthcare, and defense (see below). Articles about spending in these areas are easy to find, but the price of F-35s or my...
by Robert Solomon | May 28, 2019 | Enterprise Software, Payments, Pricing, Supply Chain Finance
Source: https://blog.stormventures.com/is-your-go-to-market-productivity-good-enough-a1fbe6c5a360 This is the third in my series on SaaS Metrics for Enterprise-Driven B2B Networks. I spend very little time on issues of compensation on this blog. But it turns out, this...
by Robert Solomon | Jun 26, 2018 | B2B Software, Payments, Pricing
Yesterday, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in favor of American Express (Amex) in an antitrust case 11 states had brought against Amex (see here). If you are interested in two-sided markets, platforms, and pricing you will want to read the Supreme...
by Robert Solomon | May 16, 2017 | Airlines, B2B Software, Consolidating Competition, Industry Concentration, Pricing, Regtech
I love the word “oligoply”. It’s a fancy word for a market structure in which a few companies have the large majority of market share. The recent news reminds me just how many markets are becoming oligopolistic–especially those dominated by...
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