Blog Archives

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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Blog Archives

Swiftype, Customer Expectations and the Perils of Freemium

Chartio Supporting Salesforce–Pretty for the Enterprise

Cloud Uptake–Startups at the Forefront

On Microsoft and the Lack of Startup Cred