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When Products People Love Die in the Cloud

This is going to be BIG.

In a cloud world, software has a continuous cost of upkeep. You''re left with no cottage industry of users--a SaaS Cuba, where you can seemingly keep a 1950''s car running forever. In the desktop software world, you could do that. When the company dies, the software dies. That frustrates a lot of users.

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Soundbites from the Future – 2013

Start Up Blog

While Clouds over Cuba represents something more apocalyptic, it is still part of the ‘what if’ narrative. We might also consider the famous Japanese rock star Hatsuen Miku. Her concerts sell out, she has adoring fans, but she’s not real, she is a hologram… ‘Anime’ Hard to believe until you see this.

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Out of the Crisis #26: Brian Armstrong of Coinbase on cryptocurrency, being mission-oriented, and institution building

Startup Lessons Learned

At one point we had to turn off all the hosts in Cuba, because US companies weren't allowed to work with Cuban citizens. But email quickly moved into the cloud. It was stored in the cloud. And so we eventually just sent $100 through it and asked somebody in Uruguay to tell us how much money showed up on the other side.

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