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  • Swiftype, Customer Expectations and the Perils of Freemium

    August 30, 2013

    Business
    freemium, Garry Tan, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Matt Riley, Software as a Service, SV Angel, Swiftype, Web Design and Development, Web search engine, Y Combinator
     

    SaaS startups are hard – beyond all he difficulties of getting to scale, getting attention in a busy marketplace and deciding on a partnership strategy, there is the important issue of revenue to think about. One of the most…

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  • Chartio Supporting Salesforce–Pretty for the Enterprise

    February 25, 2013

    Business
    Chartio, Database, google, Google Analytics, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Salesforce.com, Y Combinator
     

    Two themes I often talk about are specific functionality from specialist vendors and delivering enterprise solutions in new and friendly ways. A good example of this I came across recently was from small company Chartio. Chartio, a Y Combinator…

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  • Cloud Uptake–Startups at the Forefront

    February 4, 2011

    Business
    cloud computing, Goldman Sachs, rackspace, Y Combinator
     

    Recently over on ReadWriteWeb, Alex Williams posted a review of the services startups involved in the Y Combinator program use for their various hosting needs. The statistics covered a number of services but of most interest to this blog…

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  • On Microsoft and the Lack of Startup Cred

    January 18, 2011

    Business
    Amazon EC2, azure, cloud computing, gmail, Microsoft, Quora, Software as a Service, Y Combinator
     

    The recent domain profiling of Y Combinator startups was interesting reading from a “how far ahead of corporate IT are startups when it comes to cloud services?” question, but also interesting was a look at Microsoft‘s performance among the…

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Papers

The Future of ERP – Moving at the Speed of Change

If we look back a generation, business tended to be static. While it is undeniable that innovation occurred, it tended to at a much slower pace. While Henry Ford’s manufacturing and distribution models certainly marked disruption for the horse and buggy industry, this was a change that took decades.

Channel Strategies for Success in the Cloud Age

Cloud Computing is perhaps one of the biggest shifts in the technology industry in a generation. Alongside the technology shifts involved in Cloud, there is also a significant change in the way technology will be supplied, implemented and delivered going forward. While this shift offers real benefits to consumers in terms of reduced costs and increased agility

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Ben Kepes is a business leader, a technology evangelist, an entrepreneur, and a commentator. Ben covers the convergence of business and technology.

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