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A New Chapter In My Life; Google

A New Chapter In My Life; Google

By Chirag Mehta on January 16, 2017

When I decided to leave SAP to take a short sabbatical I didn’t really know what to expect. Six months later I am happy to report that it was one of the best decisions I ever made. These were some of the best weeks and months of my life. After this short period of disconnecting […]

Posted in Business | Tagged enterprise software, google, Product Management

Google Cloud Platform : Good Times Ahead

Google Cloud Platform : Good Times Ahead

By Sadagopan on March 29, 2016

The tech behemoths Amazon, Microsoft & Google are established players in one of the battes that will change the future of customers view and investments of computing. This is an area with a potential hundred billion dollars plus that can be secured for the vendors – a lucrative space that each one wants to corner […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged cloud, cloud computing, Clouds, google, innovation, IT Business Value

What You Can Learn from a Scorpion

What You Can Learn from a Scorpion

By Mark Suster on July 27, 2015

The hardest thing about starting a company is that from day one you emerge as this completely vulnerable entity trying its hardest to project success, power, trajectory and inevitability while you secretly know that you’re one knock-out blow from extinction. Think about it: You start with nearly no money, you bring on some co-founders and if […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged google, Spotify, startup lessons, Thomas Hobbes, whatsapp

Does Google’s Knowledge Graph have a ‘facts’ problem?

Does Google’s Knowledge Graph have a ‘facts’ problem?

By Paul Miller on July 21, 2015

Does Google’s Knowledge Graph have a ‘facts’ problem?: Maybe. It might, of course, be unwise for a single short response at the top of a set of search results to even try to ‘answer’ a question when we think, theorise or hypothesise towards an answer, rather than knowing it. I’m not suggesting, for a moment, that Google’s current […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged dinosaurs, google, Knowledge Graph, tftd, venturebeat

Amazon iterates, Google partners

Amazon iterates, Google partners

By Paul Miller on July 17, 2015

Positive cloudy news from two of the big three, with Amazon Web Services (AWS) making some significant improvements to their DynamoDB service and Google signing on as a sponsor of the OpenStack cloud platform. AWS has got this incremental improvement thing down to a fine art, to the extent that too many competitors have stopped […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Platforms | Tagged amazon, Amazon Web Services, aws, cloud computing, Containers, docker, dynamodb, google, google compute engine, kubernetes, open source, openstack, tftd

The Discriminatory Dark Side Of Big Data

The Discriminatory Dark Side Of Big Data

By Chirag Mehta on July 9, 2015

It has happened again. Researchers have discovered that Google’s ad-targeting system is discriminatory. Male web users were more likely to be shown high paying executive ads compared to female visitors. The researchers have published a paper which was presented at the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium in Philadelphia. I had blogged about the dark side of […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged algorithms, big data, Carnegie Mellon University, discrimination, google, privacy

Just Remember, We Don’t Really Need Any More SaaS Products. Then You’ll Do Far Better.

Just Remember, We Don’t Really Need Any More SaaS Products. Then You’ll Do Far Better.

By Jason M. Lemkin on May 1, 2015

I guess in some ways SaaStr is a digest of mistakes we all make in recurring revenue businesses, how to avoid them, or at least, make fewer. There’s one important mistake folks tend to make consistently in the early days.  It’s the mistake of thinking anyone, any company, actually needs their product. And because they […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts | Tagged Customer, Getting to Initial Traction, google, google apps, saas-startups

It’s time to reconsider, Google

It’s time to reconsider, Google

By Paul Miller on March 19, 2015

Almost a year ago, Google made an apparently small change to Google Calendar. They started automatically adding Google Hangout video links to every new appointment. And it was bad. I’m sure you’ve all seen appointments like this pop up in your calendar. How do you join the meeting? Do you dial the phone number, or […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged Design, google, google calendar, intuitive, saas, software as a service, tftd, uberconference, unintuitive, usability, user experience, user interface, ux

The Silent Killer – The Company Your Community Never Created

The Silent Killer – The Company Your Community Never Created

By Mark Suster on November 19, 2014

I was at a dinner recently in Chicago and the table discussion was about building great companies outside of Silicon Valley. Of course this can be done and of course I am a big proponent of the rise of startup centers across the country as the Internet has moved from the “infrastructure phase” to the “application […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts | Tagged Entrepreneurship, facebook, google, Job Growth, los angeles, San Francisco Bay Area, silicon valley, startup lessons, startups, vc funding, venture capital

Public Cloud Economies of (Web-)Scale Aren’t About Buying Power

Public Cloud Economies of (Web-)Scale Aren’t About Buying Power

By Randy Bias on August 8, 2014

As you no doubt heard this week, Rackspace has announced the intention to focus on managed cloud.  Inevitably this brought observations from many about RAX, and others, ability to compete effectively against the web scale public cloud giants: Amazon, Microsoft, and Google. One of the commenters was Mike Kavis (twitter link), a long time cloud pundit […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged cloud computing, google, IBM, microsoft, Mike Kavis, Rackspace Hosting, Satya Nadella | 2 Responses

Privacy is Dead and We Killed it

Privacy is Dead and We Killed it

By Jacob Morgan on July 30, 2014

Privacy…everyone keeps talking about it and apparently everyone is concerned with it, but does it matter? I recently watched the documentary, “Terms and Conditions may Apply,” which provides a fascinating look at how organizations such as Facebook, Google, Apple, and others have changed the way they look at and approach privacy. After watching the movie […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Apple, data, facebook, foursquare, future of work, google, iphone, linkedin, privacy, twitter | 1 Response

Optimizing Data Centers Through Machine Learning

Optimizing Data Centers Through Machine Learning

By Chirag Mehta on June 10, 2014

Google has published a paper outlining their approach on using machine learning, a neural network to be specific, to reduce energy consumption in their data centers. Joe Kava, VP, Data Centers at Google also has a blog post explaining the backfround and their approach. Google has one of the best data center designs in the industry […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged big data, data center, google, Machine learning, Neural network

Why I’d Go Big.  And Why You Should Ignore Me, and Most of the Others That Tell You That.

Why I’d Go Big. And Why You Should Ignore Me, and Most of the Others That Tell You That.

By Jason M. Lemkin on May 19, 2014

Everything on the web, and in SaaS, these days is about going big.  Larry Page at Google I/O wants Google to start doing brave new things that build billion dollar markets.  Peter Thiel wants the best of us to skip college and go straight to building the next Pallantir and PayPal, just bigger.  Elon Musk […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts | Tagged Elon Musk, Entrepreneurship, GoBig, google, paypal, peter thiel, saas, startups | 1 Response

50% on S3? AWS Helping Google Into the Game or Stopping the Cloud Race to Zero?

50% on S3? AWS Helping Google Into the Game or Stopping the Cloud Race to Zero?

By Ofir Nachmani on April 22, 2014

One day after Google announced a substantial price reduction for their cloud services, Amazon announced their own dramatic price reduction on several AWS offerings. This move will reduce the revenues of one of Amazon’s most profitable services, the S3, by about 50%. What were the AWS leaders thinking just before Andy Jassy went on the […]

Posted in Analysis, Business, Featured Posts, Strategy | Tagged amazon, Amazon Web Services, aws, cloud computing, Cloud Costs, Cloudyn, google

Gmail offers surprising innovation lessons for the Fortune 500

Gmail offers surprising innovation lessons for the Fortune 500

By Hutch Carpenter on April 9, 2014

If you’re familiar with the story of Gmail, you know – for a fact – that it was a 20% time employee project by Paul Buchheit. A little bottom-up experimentation that grew into something big. Surprise! That story is wrong. It was a desire by Google, the company, to offer its own email. From Harry McCracken’s great piece How […]

Posted in Business, Enterprise, Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged gmail, google, hotmail, innovation, jobs to be done, jtbd, mba, Paul Buchheit, yahoo

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