Tag: Software Monetization

European Court of Justice: Under-licensing is IP Theft

Under-licensing of existing customers, often described as intentional or unintentional overuse, is an ongoing issue software suppliers around the world are facing. The European Court of Justice just ruled that overuse by a customer can be a copyright infringement. This is related to a case between the French company IT Development and its customer Free Mobile. Full story on ComputerWeekly. This is a win for software suppliers that struggle with e…

December 19, 2019 Nicole Segerer

What Product Managers Need to Know: Monetization and Deployment Model Trends

Being a software product manager is one of the most important jobs in tech. The product manager, at his or her core, is on the front lines of making customers happy every time they use the product.  Think April Underwood, who spent four years as Chief Product Officer at Slack and 4 years before that as Director of Products at Twitter. Think Gibson Biddle, VP of Product Management at NetFlix during a time it grew from 2 million to 13 million subsc…

December 18, 2019 Nicole Segerer