Software as a Service (SaaS)

SaaS is the mother of all as-a-services. You thought you were paying $50 for software, but then you wound up paying $50,000 a year for all the service that went with it. There’s a slight parallel to paying once for the razor and then repeatedly for the blades, but the metaphor gets stuck on its way out of the birth canal. “Razor blades as a service” has already been claimed by the less glamorous but enduring barbershops and salons. Few salons are seeking VC funding.