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4 Good Reasons Not to Start a SaaS Start-Up

4 Good Reasons Not to Start a SaaS Start-Up

By Jason M. Lemkin on November 16, 2012

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 […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts | Tagged Lotus 1-2-3, Quora, saas, scaling, Social network, software as a service, start up, techcrunch | 2 Responses

Startup Scaling | Overcoming 5 Key Operational Challenges

Startup Scaling | Overcoming 5 Key Operational Challenges

By Joel York on June 5, 2012

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.

Posted in Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts | Tagged chaotic flow, Scalability, scale, scaling, startup, Startup Business, startup scale, startup scaling

Cloud Computing Came to a Head in 2011

Cloud Computing Came to a Head in 2011

By Randy Bias on January 4, 2012

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 […]

Posted in Enterprise, Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged 2011, amazon, Asymco, automation, aws, cloud computing, cloud futures series, cloudscaling, commoditization, ec2, gogrid, iaas, openstack, predictions, rightscale, salesforce.com, scaling, vmware, web scale | 9 Responses

NephoScale Makes Scaling Easy For Developers

NephoScale Makes Scaling Easy For Developers

By Krishnan Subramanian on January 11, 2011

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 […]

Posted in Infrastructure | Tagged briefs, iaas, nephoscale, scaling | 1 Response

Solve Your Scaling Problem With Scalr

Solve Your Scaling Problem With Scalr

By Krishnan Subramanian on June 15, 2010

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 […]

Posted in Analysis | Tagged cloud computing, elasiticity, open source, scaling, scalr

SaaS Application Architecture is a Good Fit for Enterprises

By Guest Authors on March 24, 2009

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. […]

Posted in Design, Enterprise | Tagged architecture, cloud applications, databases, scaling, stack

A Tale of Two Strategies

By Ben Kepes on February 5, 2009

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, […]

Posted in Design, Small business, Strategy | Tagged architecture, freshbooks, go-to-market, kashflow, scaling, strategies, xero | 3 Responses

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