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The New Order of Silicon Valley: Forget the Silicon Part

Diego Basch

Here are the trends I see in Silicon Valley today: The “Silicon” part of the name no longer applies. The role of most developers at these companies is to glue cloud services together. Why be in Silicon Valley at all? The number one advantage of Silicon Valley is access to money.

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Strategy Roundtable: 5 Cloud Computing Opportunities for Entrepreneurs

ReadWriteStart

s roundtable, I started with a presentation on blue sky opportunities in cloud computing based on our Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing (TLCC) research. I took the audience through five cloud-based business ideas, discussed why they are relevant and pointed them to the sources I derived those ideas from.

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Strategy Roundtable: Open Opportunities in Cloud Computing and Rural BPO

ReadWriteStart

Next week, we will delve deep into cloud computing businesses. To prepare, please study the Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing trends and opportunities series. Sramana Mitra is a technology entrepreneur and strategy consultant in Silicon Valley. Very encouraging!

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Why Bootstrapping Was Best For Us

Austin Startup

And we did it by bootstrapping our company. In 2008, I was working on Tonido , a private file access, sync and share solution that essentially turned any private computer into a cloud server. For an entrepreneur starting out with a clear vision, if your business can generate cash off the bat, you have the option to bootstrap.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Exciting Companies Lined Up For Microsoft Startup Grant Finals

ReadWriteStart

They charge $9, $29 and $59 per agent per month and I am eager to see bootstrapped, scrappy Freshdesk morph their pricing structure to aggressively compete with them. We see Bizosys as a promising niche vendor with demonstrated capabilities in creative bootstrapping. RightNow's per agent price starts at $110 per agent per month.

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Smart Bear Live 5: Dan from SyncBloc.com with Mark Suster

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

SyncBloc is a place that takes incredibly large files that are all stuck on your offline non-cloud service and helps you sync it with the cloud. Dan: My question is related to all this talk that I hear in the Silicon Valley about Internet scale. I bootstrapped it on my own. I was in a 10-year company.

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Not Coming To The Rescue Of Victory

ReadWriteStart

We're trying to bring the lessons we have learned in Silicon Valley to a million entrepreneurs. Next Pascal Nicolas presented SalesVu , a cloud based sales management tool for restaurants interested in tracking the value of their promotions. Sramana Mitra is a technology entrepreneur and strategy consultant in Silicon Valley.