And who said the average person wouldn’t feel the effects of the downturn? I’ve just received notice that the SaaS master-class I was due to run in December in Sydney has been cancelled – it seems pressing economic conditions have limited the number of people who want to pay a conference organiser $2.5k to learn about SaaS.
I’d pretty much finished developing the materials for the master-class – so if there are any Australasian organisations out there that are keen to hear what I had to say, and are after some one-to-one time, drop me a line and I can sort you something out (and probably cheaper than attending the master-class would have been anyway!)
Ben Kepes is an analyst, an entrepreneur, a commentator and a business adviser. His business interests include many industries from manufacturing and property to technology. 
Krishnan Subramanian is an entrepreneur, cloud computing analyst and consultant, open source researcher and evangelist, one of the industry’s most prolific bloggers. 