Proxies Are As Useful As Real Data
Last year I ran a highly unscientific experiment. I would regularly put a DVD in an open mail bin in my office to mail it back to Netflix, every late Monday afternoon. I would also count the total number of Netflix DVDs put inside that bin by other people. Over a period of time I [...]
The Power of Torso TV (Why Media is Racing to the Middle)
Chris Anderson wrote a really influential book some years ago called “The Long Tail” that shaped how many people think about emerging Internet markets. If you haven’t read it you should consider adding it to you library.
It was especially influential in my mind in thinking about media.
Amazon AWS is the Cloud (for now anyway)
Every day I talk, write and comment about the “Cloud”. Every time I mention the cloud I try to make sure that I add the name of the relevant cloud operator, “Rackspace Cloud, “MS Cloud” (Azure) or “HP Cloud”. Somehow all of these cloud titles don’t right to me – it seems the only title [...]
Win A Free Ticket To Forecast 2012 Conference And/Or Deploycon 2012
Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA) (previous CloudAve coverage) is running a conference called Forecast 2012 to shape the future of cloud computing. This is an enterprise focussed panel with some interesting keynotes and engaging panels. Check out the agenda for yourselves. ODCA has agreed to give away one ticket to the event for CloudAve readers. [...]
AWS Launches a Marketplace–Proof that Much of the Value is Further Up the Stack
Summary – it’s a long post so here’s what you need to know. Amazon Web Services is moving up the stack. Existing ecosystem partners will benefit from that in the short term but it’s a risk for them long term. Other infrastructure vendors will surely follow suit. It’s game on! Now if you have the [...]
Cloud Foundry 1 Year Anniversary & New Bits (Code Included)
Today was the 1 year anniversary for the Cloud Foundry Open Source PaaS Project. For info on what PaaS is, especially related to open source and related to Cloud Foundry check out my 5 part series at New Relic’s Blog; Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.1, Part 3.14159265, Part 4, and Part 5 (which I …
Introducing Rishidot Research
I have been growing with CloudAve talking about various cloud related topics for the past 3 years or so. There will come a point in time for everyone when they will feel the urge to take the next big step. I think I am at this stage now and here is the announcement about my [...]
Why You Should Think Twice Before You Send That Intro Email
Intros.They’re the lifeblood of networking – the currency of mavens. They are your route to angel money. Your entrée to sales meetings. We couldn’t live without them. But when misused, overused or abused they can diminish your personal brand, consume your valuable time and waste that of the relationships you value the most. I would [...]
I Found a Chief Collaboration Officer and his name is Todd
I think at this point it’s safe to say that I’ve worked with, researched, and communicated with hundreds of companies around how they are leveraging emergent tools and strategies to impact their business. A few weeks ago I asked if we need a chief collaboration officer which received a lot of attention. Out of all of these [...]
A Quick Hack for Speeding up Term Sheet and other Negotiations
I’ve started a series on negotiations in startups. In it I list some books and also link to some of my previous posts. It’s the first functional series I’ve done since sales & marketing. The very first time I ever negotiated a term sheet (and then legal docs for closing the round) I found the [...]
Find Egg-breakers: People With Influence and Authority Who Are Unafraid to Use Them
This came up again today so I thought I’d dust it off, update it and republish. It’s as timely as it was when I first wrote it 2-and-a-half years ago when few were paying attention to my blog VC’s keep different titles but the most common that I’ve come across that are investment professionals are [...]
Tier 3 Brings Out The Heavy Guns!
There are cloud offerings and then there are cloud offerings. As of today, Tier 3 just loaded up some big guns. Over the years Tier 3 has provided an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) play using various geographically located data-centers with high level disaster recovery, high availability (99.999%), utility compute, and high speed storage to [...]
Cloud Computing: Giving Up Control In The Name Of Simplicity
Alistair Croll, Chair of Cloud Connect event, gave a brilliant keynote which gets everyone thinking. For the sake of those who didn’t attend the event, he has put up a video of his keynote. We thought we should share it with CloudAve readers who didn’t attend the event. Enjoy Alistair’s keynote that could get us [...]
How to Develop Your Fund Raising Strategy
Raising money is hard. And when you’re relatively new to the process it’s easy to be confused by the process. There is all sorts of advice on the Internet about how to raise capital. Of course much of it is conflicting. I’ve raised money as a “hot company” and I’ve raised capital when no one [...]
Interesting New Tech Blog for your Radar Screen
Over the holiday I became aware of a new tech blog that aims to have deep insights into the next generation of technology, which they call The Hypernet. Why should you care? Well, it is established by some of the industries more successful investors – Mike Maples and Roger McNamee. My favorite post was this [...]
