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Interview: Thorsten von Eicken of RightScale

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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

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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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What’s Really Behind the Net Neutrality Ruling

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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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ResMed To Add To Software Offerings With $750M MatrixCare Acquisition

Xconomy

The purchase price is 25 times MatrixCare’s pro forma 2018 earnings of about $30 million (without taking into account interest, taxes, depreciation or amortization) on anticipated net revenue of about $122 million. ResMed, which brought in net income of $315.6 million on revenues of $2.3

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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 company was approached by a Big Dumb Company (BDC) who made a nominal acquisition offer within months of the company’s founding.

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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 company was approached by a Big Dumb Company (BDC) who made a nominal acquisition offer within months of the company’s founding.

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The Five Major Tech Trends of 2016

Xconomy

The Continued Growth of Cloud. Early this year, IDC predicted that worldwide spending on public cloud services will be $141 billion in 2019, while last year Amazon Web Services achieved net sales of $7.88