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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

The topic is: Betting Your Company On An Internet Platform? However, these platforms could be interesting for prototype and pilot solutions. They also are VERY interesting for background processing tasks that take compute resources or from a storage cloud standpoint. I'm blogging from the CalTech Enterprise Forum.

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CallFire Bootstraps 50,000 Signups and Hires Former NetZero CEO

Tech Zulu Event

Signaling an overall shift away from costly hardware in favor of affordable cloud-based voice and text messaging services for the commercial and non-profit sectors, CallFire announced that it has surpassed 50,000 users. They have the energy, the passion, and the integrity it takes to transform this sector.

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Interview: Thorsten von Eicken of RightScale

InfoChachkie

Or would you like me to sell you a story on how cloud computing is green because these large datacenters are more energy efficient than the same number of computers run in ad-hoc ways? Let me answer ‘why computing needs RightScale.’ Computing is going the way of the electric grid. It’s contagious!”. 5) It is 2015.

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Entrepreneurs Should Go For The Quick Buck – Then Stop - Initial Business Models Can Be Enticing But Limiting In The Long Run

InfoChachkie

They knew that price restructuring would significantly impair their gross revenues as well as their net income, which would dramatically impact their stock price. Cloud computing pioneer RightScale is a prime example of a company which utilized a consultative go-to-market strategy as a means of funding its initial operations.

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Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? Every Successful Entrepreneur Should Expect The “Million Dollar Question”

InfoChachkie

A similar experience occurred at a cloud computing company where I acted as an addVisor. Take Home Pay – All that matters is the amount of money you net, not the size of the initial offer. The key is to determine if your company’s solution is a feature, a point solution product, or a platform.

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Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? Every Successful Entrepreneur Should Expect The “Million Dollar Question”

InfoChachkie

A similar experience occurred at a cloud computing company where I acted as an addVisor. Take Home Pay – All that matters is the amount of money you net, not the size of the initial offer. The key is to determine if your company’s solution is a feature, a point solution product, or a platform.

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What’s Really Behind the Net Neutrality Ruling

Tech Zulu Event

Regardless which side of the isle you stand politically, you can be rest assured that the passage of net neutrality is a positive for you, and your ability to access the Internet like you have since the 1990’s. The Internet is turning into a business tool with everything from cloud computing to premium Internet providers.

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