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You will need to sell directly for a long time. - Stay local - Prove your business in your market first. - Invest early in backup and disaster recovery, but stick to one data center till listing - Single instance, multi-tenant - Have only one version of the code in production. Say no to on premise deployments - Savvy online marketing is a core competence (sometimes the only one) of every successful SaaS business. - Constantly trade off cash vs. growth - SaaS requires R&D and sales expense up front for a multi-year stream of revenue, so it demands enough investment capital to fund 4+ years of runway Thoughts worth pondering for companies already having SaaS delivered products or planning for it. 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