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The beauty of SaaS is that, instead of downloading software to your business network or building it from the ground up with an in-house team, any business (from 5 employees to 500,000) can have access to an iteratively improving, always-learning software application, backed by a full company (the vendor) of software engineers.
Who Not How: Software Edition
Peter H
I’ve come to believe that learning is the essential unit of progress for startups. The effort that is not absolutely necessary for learning what customers want can be eliminated. I call this validated learning because it is always demonstrated by positive improvements in the startup’s core metrics. As we’ve seen, it’s easy to kid yourself about what you think customers want. It’s also easy to learn things that are completely irrelevant. Thus, validated learning is backed up by empirical data collected from real customers.
The Lean Startup
Eric Ries
There's another sense of "not everyone can do work they love" that's all too true, however. One has to make a living, and it's hard to get paid for doing work you love. There are two routes to that destination:
The organic route: as you become more eminent, gradually to increase the parts of your job that you like at the expense of those you don't.
The two-job route: to work at things you don't like to get money to work on things you do.
How to Do What You Love
paulgraham.com
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