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How Kazuhm Is Reconnecting The Enterprise Cloud, With Tim O'Neal

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However, most enterprises are overlooking an existing, in-house bank of computing resources--desktops and otherwise idle computers--which could help reduce the costs and give them more control over their cloud computing. We had an idea to recapture what we saw was a huge pool of unlimited corporate resources. Explain what Kazuhm does?

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Interview with Evan Rifkin, Burstly

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We caught up with founder Evan Rifkin --who previously founded and sold TagWorld/Flux to MTVN in November of 2008--to learn more about the startup. We cater to mobile phone developers--right now the iPhone, and coming soon to Android. We let you set up complex rules like that. Evan Rifkin: We started in Q1 of last year.

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Entrepreneurs Should be Respected, Not Loved

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And yet you still have scarce resources. If engineering got the shaft because “we need 3 more weekends from you to get this release out the door&# … then there better be a solution to make this up to them and to explain your decision. There’s no place for that in a startup.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

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I have been close to the tech & startup sectors for more than 20 years and I can’t think of a period in which I felt more optimistic about the innovation and value creation I see in front of us. The number of startups being created has increased by an order of magnitude. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin! Today’s Normalization.

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App is Crap (why Apple is bad for your health)

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They were frustrated that despite having the (monopoly) infrastructure that brought you the Internet, the majority of innovation and profits went to Silicon Valley startups. And they swore they’d never let the application companies do it to them again. So Apple has encouraged application developers to set loose building apps.

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Twitter’s Acquisition, Chirp & Managing Developer Relationships

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Ultimately to become defensible the client application would want to diversify its “stream&# so would start supporting Facebook, MySpace and perhaps even IM products. I said this many times publicly before it ever started happening with Tweetdeck and Seesmic. We didn’t have the resources to do it all.