Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Perhaps it should come as no surprise that the cloud price wars have flared up once again. After taking a brief hiatus amidst nervous tensions, competition between cloud computing vendors has reached a fever pitch in the past month. The massive price cut is only part of the story, however.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 20, 2020

Unfortunately, the market is changing so fast these days that any upward climb can level off quickly, as the core business growth begins to stall. I’m talking about the kind of change that moved Apple from personal computers to music distribution to consumer electronics, and Amazon from books to e-Commerce to cloud computing services.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Calabasas-based NetSol Technologies has created a new division to tackle the cloud computing market, the firm announced this morning. NetSol said that its new division, NetSolCloudVM, will offer infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) products to the North American market. The new division will be headed by Imran Haider.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

Unfortunately, the market is changing so fast these days that any upward climb can level off quickly, as the core business growth begins to stall. I’m talking about the kind of change that moved Apple from personal computers to music distribution to consumer electronics, and Amazon from books to e-Commerce to cloud computing services.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

The next phase of evolution will demand device independence, enabling an uninterrupted computing experience as we move from device to device throughout our daily lives. Cloud Computing. Every entrepreneur needs to leverage social media for better marketing, requirements, and customer service. Gamification.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2010

In short, acknowledge they exist, be transparent about strengths & weaknesses and use your differences to talk about how you want to position yourself in the market. Marketing Differentiation – Salesforce.com is one of the most effective marketing organizations in the world because Marc Benioff is a genius at marketing.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 28, 2011

However, in the long run, entrepreneurs always benefit from delivering Maximum Utility for a fair price. Perhaps in part due to its dominant market share, WebEx adopted telecom-style pricing, which effectively penalized their users. WebEx’s predatory pricing made it vulnerable to a new entrant. Arbitrage Is Fleeting.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 30, 2011

Or the Cliff Note’s version: Open Source & Cloud Computing (led by Amazon) drove down tech startup costs by 90%. A normalization of the venture capital market will bring more rational valuations over time but should produce more stable companies and better returns for VCs and LPs. The Coming Brick Wall.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

Unfortunately, the market is changing so fast these days that any upward climb can level off quickly, as the core business growth begins to stall. I’m talking about the kind of change that moved Apple from personal computers to music distribution to consumer electronics, and Amazon from books to e-Commerce to cloud computing services.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 3, 2018

Unfortunately, the market is changing so fast these days that any upward climb can level off quickly, as the core business growth begins to stall. I’m talking about the kind of change that moved Apple from personal computers to music distribution to consumer electronics, and Amazon from books to e-Commerce to cloud computing services.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 22, 2011

We spoke about my interest in cloud computing, digital media and mobile. Well marketed. It’s a market commentary, not a company commentary. I’ve spoken positively about their design simplicity, their UX flow and their marketing prowess. It’s about 10 minutes long. In a word, awesome.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

15 years ago we were at the peak of Internet hype with the launch of many over-capitalized businesses with a market size & opportunity was limited. The VC market has right-sized (returned back to mid 90′s levels & less competition). But markets value high growth over short-term profitability. Where are we today?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 28, 2015

The next phase of evolution will demand device independence, enabling an uninterrupted computing experience as we move from device to device throughout our daily lives. Cloud Computing. Every entrepreneur needs to leverage social media for better marketing, requirements, and customer service. Gamification.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 21, 2011

The era of cheap cloud computing plus open-source software plus digital natives unleashed upon society is creating some truly amazing products that will challenge the way we do business and the way we live our lives. They get marketed as such. As with the late 90′s the answer is “Yes. Not solving a real problem.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Binary Pulse Technology Marketing (www.binarypulse.com). Middle Market Investment Banking. Joyent - An Enterprise Class Cloud Computing Company funded by Intel Capital, provides the most comprehensive cloud solution available today. Redpoint Ventures (www.redpoint.com). Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com).

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 19, 2015

The cloud services market continues to grow at an impressive rate. Companies all over the world are realizing how beneficial it is to move some operations to the cloud, creating a need for the services that cloud providers offer. Cloud vendors are everywhere, with more springing up seemingly each month.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2017

The next phase of evolution will demand device independence, enabling an uninterrupted computing experience as we move from device to device throughout our daily lives. Cloud Computing. Every entrepreneur needs to leverage social media for better marketing, requirements, and customer service. Gamification.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 2, 2014

The next phase of evolution will demand device independence, enabling an uninterrupted computing experience as we move from device to device throughout our daily lives. Cloud Computing. Every entrepreneur needs to leverage social media for better marketing, requirements, and customer service. Gamification.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Sometimes it’s a question of marketing or pricing, but most of the time, it’s because people don’t see its true potential or lack the skills to make the most of it. For example, new mobile devices are creating an era of cloud computing and BYOD (What is BYOD?). This rejection isn’t exclusive to tech devices.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

DreamHost has a successful track record of incubating technologies in-house and then releasing them to the broader market. The release of Linux in 1991 led to a resurgence of Open Sourcing that was embraced by a new generation of software developers aiming to disrupt the legacy, proprietary software market.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

Venture capital is in the process of its own creative destruction with new market entrants and new models of innovation at the precise moment that our industry itself is contracting. million in team costs to code, launch, manage, market & sell our software. The Emergence of “Open Cloud&# Infrastructure.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Plus, when compared to the other laptops on the market, Chromebooks tend to offer the most features for the lowest prices, making them a sweet deal. If you’ve ever worked with Chrome OS before, you probably also know that it’s highly task-oriented and designed to work perfectly with cloud computing.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

That why we offer a price point where you own your own IP address, and you can control your own destiny. That pricing scales up with volume, and it's pennies per thousands of emails sent, a very low cost. If your neighbor's wife has a spending problem, that would mean you couldn't use your credit card, because they're linked.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 27, 2010

A similar experience occurred at a cloud computing company where I acted as an addVisor. It is derived from the stock market in which day traders “flip” shares quickly after purchasing them in order to generate short-term gains. To Flip Or Not To Flip. The Answer Is? The “Do you want to be a millionaire?”

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 27, 2010

A similar experience occurred at a cloud computing company where I acted as an addVisor. It is derived from the stock market in which day traders “flip” shares quickly after purchasing them in order to generate short-term gains. To Flip Or Not To Flip. The Answer Is? The “Do you want to be a millionaire?”

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Jason Nazar

MAY 2, 2016

Determine a pricing system for your product(s). Marketing & PR. Plan your marketing strategy. Decide on a target market and conduct a market analysis. Master social media marketing. Look into relevant trade shows and conventions to market your product. Determine the price of your services.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Branding / Marketing / Publicity marketing, PR, publicity. . Why cater to a market that makes you eat ramen when you can slap on a suit and get budget for sushi? Bootstrapping enterprise, marketing, Sales. . Bootstrapping marketing, Start-up, Technology. . Post-Launch: Marketing Web Apps on a Budget.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2014

As technology prices drop, so does the barrier to entry for innovation. New networking capabilities are allowing ever-smaller chips and sensors to communicate with one another, and as a result, take actions or pass data to the cloud for additional processing, making these “things” smart. For me, version 1.0

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

There are obvious reasons the industry has had less-than-desirable returns, including: massive over-funding of the sector, huge increases in inexperienced venture capitalists that took a decade to peter out, and the massive correction in the value of the public stock markets that closed many exit opportunities for half a decade.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2009

With open source software (LAMP stack) and cloud computing infrastructure it just wasn’t that expensive to get your company going and founders just wanted to raise less money. Entrepreneurs want less cash because they want to control dilution and preserve exit options at lower prices. What exactly is seed funding anymore?

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 22, 2011

It’s true that I have a functional focus on three areas: Performance-based marketing, digital television and mobile computing. I have other areas of interest & competence such as cloud computing and document management given my background. Not by dropping price & quality – they don’t have an advantage there.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 27, 2021

Clio , a software company that helps law practices run more efficiently with its cloud-based technology, announced Tuesday it has raised a $110 million Series E round co-led by T. Rowe Price Associates Inc. Clio in particular is growing in the EMEA markets with a current focus on the United Kingdom and Ireland.

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