socalTECH

OCTOBER 15, 2012

MetaCloud is headed by Steve Curry, the former head of Yahoo's global storage operations. MetaCloud's fully managed services helps companies deploy their own, OpenStack cloud computing systems. MetaCloud's co-founders also include Sean Lynch, former Sr. Details on the funding by Storm Ventures was not announced.

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socalTECH

JUNE 26, 2013

Metacloud , a provider of managed, Openstack-based private cloud services, announced this morning that it has raised $10M in a Series A funding round. The round was led by Canaan Partners, and also included Storm Ventures and AME Cloud. The companies said the funding will go towards growth and global expansion of its services.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2022

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. This means you need to find new sources of revenue growth to offset a slowdown in the core business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 20, 2020

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. This means you need to find new sources of revenue growth to offset a slowdown in the core business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

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. This means you need to find new sources of revenue growth to offset a slowdown in the core business.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Jim Franklin: Sendgrid is a cloud-based email service. Explain why someone would use your service, rather than set up your own email servers? They've talked about this in their book, Do More Faster, where they talk about a variety of web services, including Sendgrid. What is Sendgrid? You only pay for us after you grow.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

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. This means you need to find new sources of revenue growth to offset a slowdown in the core business.

Pricing 105

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