My Start as an Entrepreneur I started my first company with a group of co-founders in 2001. It was one month after 9–11 and a year since the dot-com bubble had burst — and the economy was in the tank. Unlike today, young tech entrepreneurs were not in favor. To go embark on an entrepreneurial…

PART I — SaaS Application Architecture After founding 3 SaaS ventures myself and participating in dozens more I’ve noticed that in almost every case, non-technical founders encounter lots of challenges along the road to building their SaaS products. …

There are periods in your life that you remember above all. Perhaps it’s when you first met your significant other, when your child was born or when you were part of an accomplished group in sports or business. What I am about to describe is one of the most enjoyable…

All startups are inherently risky — no matter how great an idea is. Too often does the idea of startup risk get glorified. The old adage “big risk equals big reward” may help one in a million at the roulette wheel. …

8base was inspired by my own experience building complex single-instance, multi-tenant software-as-a-service products in previous ventures. In short, these experiences were painful! In case you don’t know: Multi-tenancy means that a single instance of the software and its supporting infrastructure serves multiple customers. Each customer shares the software application and…

To compete in today’s digital economy, businesses must have the ability to connect data, customers and workflows at a digital speed. This is an existential challenge that almost every business faces, and yet most are woefully unprepared to address. To combat this challenge, businesses are investing more in accelerating application…

From the JOBS Act to Blockchain: How the future of investing will be democratized By Albert Santalo, Founder and CEO of 8base On April 5, 2012, I had the distinct honor of standing behind President Obama during the signing of the JOBS Act (Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act). What brought…

For the majority of my career I have been obsessed with creating technologies to modernize our largely dysfunctional U.S. healthcare system. To me, it is very clear that the emergence of cloud computing has finally created the opportunity to truly address this daunting problem. …

“As far as the customer is concerned, the interface is the product,” says Jef Raskin, an interface expert who drove the early development of the Macintosh system for Apple Computer. Developers of consumer web sites have always understood this, but for business software there is a significant void of good…