Walmart, Microsoft Deepen Partnership as Both Grapple With Amazon
Xconomy
JULY 17, 2018
The enemy of my enemy is my friend—even in the retail and cloud computing businesses. Walmart is, Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.
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Why You Should Make Your Competitors Your Frenemies
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 27, 2010
Conventional wisdom in most companies is that “the competition is the enemy&# – it’s the rallying cry to dig deeper, get more features out the door, issue press releases citing differences and attack the competition’s weaknesses in sales presentations. Of course they’re software. Them vs. Us.
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Great Startups Sell Around Gartner Hype Predictions
Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 7, 2013
The first phase of a hype cycle is the technology trigger or breakthrough, product launch or other event that generates significant press and interest. Consequently, the press usually abandons the topic. The trough of disillusionment includes NFC for mobile payments, cloud computing, gesture control, virtual worlds, and more.
You Need to Win the Battle for Share of Mind
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. As with the late 90′s the answer is “Yes. Yes, there is unprecedented innovation.
The Internet of Things Version 0.5
Tech Zulu Event
JANUARY 30, 2014
Let your smart home turn it off without you needing to finally remember and then press a button on your phone. will be when we take these data sets and use the massive increases in data storage and cloud computing power and sprinkle some big data crunching. You left your house and didn’t turn the stove off?
It’s Morning in Venture Capital
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 23, 2012
Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%. If you want to understand the details of why this is, I covered it in detail in this post, Understanding Changes in the Software Industry. The number of startups being created has increased by an order of magnitude.
Data is the Next Major Layer of the Cloud & A Major Victory for Startups
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 9, 2010
During my second startup we never considered using cloud computer processing for our real-time processes but we did run some batch processes there. As companies (startups or business units of bigger companies) started betting their businesses on the stability of cloud services a host of other issues started to arise.
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