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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Both Sides of the Table

These two trends had a major impact on the computing industry from 2000-2005 but the effects weren’t yet felt by the VC industry. Platform cloud players like Salesforce.com provide compute resources so that third parties can build applications that integrate with its core product. These are very different.

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REACH | Disruptive Technologies Impacting the Future of Gaming [Live]

Tech Zulu Event

As President of Game Development and Operations at SGN, a leading cross platform game developer and distributor, Josh Yguado is responsible for development, marketing, and operations for all games. From 1997 through 2005, Robin was a marketing executive and general manager at PepsiCo. Now all we need is YOU to: Join us!

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Data is the Next Major Layer of the Cloud & A Major Victory for Startups

Both Sides of the Table

When I started my second company in 2005 we decided to do everything differently. Our chief architect, Ryan Lissack, wanted to store our data in Amazon’s new (at the time) storage product called S3 that enabled us to store all our data in their facility and we’d pay by the MBs uploaded / downloaded. Cloud Data Platform.

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