Growing Internationally
One of the greatest opportunities any established business faces is growth internationally. Take a company like Apple. Recently, much has been made about how they have saturated the domestic marketplace wi their iPhones and iPads. The thinking is a concern over how earth’s largest company can grow much more. This type of thinking lead to [...]
The Best Government Money Can Buy
I work in Asia where government influence (“bribes”) is exceedingly common. Granted, it is officially illegal, but as a practical matter it is essential. I remember traveling into Cambodia via rail. At the border crossing there is an immigration office where you apply for and get a visa to enter. The room was packed with [...]
iPhone Stolen Again – Apple Couldn’t Care Less
When does a corporation have an ethical responsibility to its customers? Is it right for a company to profit by encouraging customer losses? Some would say that a company’s responsibility is simply to comply with the laws and to return a profit….
Box Counters Salesforce Smackdown
At TechCrunch Disrupt last week, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff leaked his own company’s news of a new content collaboration and sharing service dubbed ChatterBox. I’ve actually known about the product for a month or so, my sources who told me of its initial existence said that it was a direct
Global Cloud Computing – Cultural Issues
As cloud computing gets adopted by people in many different countries around the world, across all the continents, it is quite evident that different countries see cloud computing with different lenses. There are many issues that affect the adoption of cloud computing, from regulatory issues to cultural issues to economic issues. At the recently concluded [...]
Eucalyptus Targets Asia
Image via CrunchBase Eucalyptus Systems (see previous CloudAve coverage), the academic project turned commercial vendors that helps enterprises build private clouds, is now focussing on the Asian markets. In 2010, Eucalyptus focussed on releasing their new version and strengthening their partnerships with companies like Redhat, rPath and newScale. They are turning their attention in 2011 [...]
Cloud Computing Outside the US
Information Week has an article that talks about the difference between the US and European Cloud Computing markets. The article points out to some numbers given by The 451 Group’s William Fellows The 451 Group’s William Fellows in a “Cloud Outlook 2010″ Webcast, says that 57% of spending on cloud computing is done in the [...]
Where are Asia’s Open Source Companies?
Asia produces some of the brightest minds in software programming and science yet does not appear to have originated any sustainable open source companies. By definition I mean companies based in Asia that originate or control open source software. My friends joke that all of Asia is open source, but that is a topic for [...]
What We Must Learn from Asia
I run a monthly meeting called the VCA that represents the majority of Southern California venture capital firms. My goal is to bring in informative speakers who stretch our collectively thinking on topics that will influence our investment strategies and use it as a way for us to share our experiences in ways that I [...]
