4 Good Reasons Not to Start a SaaS Start-Up
There’s been one huge change in “entrepreneurship” IMHO over the past 10 years. >> No, it’s not that it’s cheaper than ever to do a start-up. That’s not even true. In the old days, when software came on a disk, or a CD-ROM, it was even cheaper. You didn’t even need a single server to [...]
Startup Scaling | Overcoming 5 Key Operational Challenges
Startup scaling from zero to $100M is 10% strategy and 90% execution. You’d never know that from reading the Web, because the advice you’ll find online is 90% strategy.
Cloud Computing Came to a Head in 2011
Happy New Year! I hope you all had a fantastic holiday. This is a review post that I think you will find particularly compelling. Rather than predicting the future I thought I would take a look back at five long years of ‘cloud computing’. As many of you long time readers know, I’ve been ‘in [...]
NephoScale Makes Scaling Easy For Developers
Nephoscale, a Silicon Valley based cloud startup, today announced a new IaaS platform that gives more power to the developers. It is a fault tolerant and scalable cloud services infrastructure that gives users more control over compute, network, and storage resources. They have come into the crowded infrastructure services marketplace with a quick and easy [...]
Solve Your Scaling Problem With Scalr
Scalr, the Palo Alto based cloud startup, focuses on solving one problem and does it well. This service makes your scaling problem go away. Scalr is the low cost, open source alternative to Rightscale, the leading cloud broker used by companies wanting to use cloud infrastructure. Along with scaling, Scalr also takes care of fault [...]
SaaS Application Architecture is a Good Fit for Enterprises
When applications are designed (On-Premise or On-Demand), they are typically architected based on the number of users they are intended to serve as the architecture vastly varies based on the type/size of deployment. The architecture of a Cloud application like Gmail for example is majorly different from the architecture of an on-premise application like Exchange. [...]
A Tale of Two Strategies
KashFlow went public the other day proudly boasting that it had reached the 2500 paying customer mark. This figure puts them at roughly USD700k revenue and, according to founder Duane Jackson, they’re already at breakeven point and meeting the costs of their ten person organisation. The KashFlow strategy is very much one of local immersion, [...]
