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28 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I now am the CEO and founder of Berri Properties in Asheville and Charlotte, NC. My experience in enterprise tech solutions brought me to my next venture as co-founder of Azuqua, a cloud-based workflow company, which was acquired by Okta in March 2019. Thanks to Matthew Myre, Berri Properties !

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@cindyalvarez Petabytes on a Budget - How to Beat the Big Guys (and Build Cheap Cloud Storage) Gleb Budman. Co-founder, Backblaze. Founder, House of Mikko. Co-founder and CTO, Sharethrough. Co-founder and CTO, Saygent. Founder, BlueSpark. Co-founder, Polyvore. Founder, Monsoon and Badmash.

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How to pivot away $34m: Israel’s Xeround shuts it doors with a lesson

The Next Web

Xeround, which provides a cloud model database as a service solution (DaaS), informed users on its official company blog that free users will have just one week to move all their data to another database provider. Xeround had to bundle their services with a cloud provider, and to make that work properly costs money.

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