YoungUpstarts
SEPTEMBER 18, 2012
The world has changed a lot lately and just about every aspect of a technology company – and especially a web-based company – can be “moved out” to a web-based application provider at a lower cost than doing it yourself. Salesforce.com – Sales lead and sales pipeline management. Marketing and Communications.
Sophia Perl of Wisdom
AUGUST 27, 2011
During lunch at school, he would have sales calls with customers and say that he had a hard stop at 1pm. To this day they have auctioned off $55m worth of websites with 55% of website sales ending above it’s initial sales price. Tips from Matt Mickiewicz: To keep costs low try swapping services for other services.
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BeyondVC
SEPTEMBER 5, 2007
Ok-enough of the sales pitch. Along with the cost of powering and cooling in-house data centers, the red shift is driving a surge in utility computing and software as a service. Think about Amazon’s S3 and EC2 which I have written about before as utility storage and processing for the masses.
Steve Blank
APRIL 15, 2011
Veritas , the team building a low cost, residential wind turbine. But the big project for the week was testing and analyzing Customer Acquisition Costs. The team put together their sales funnel and started testing demand. The team put together their sales funnel and started testing demand. The results were disappointing.
SoCal CTO
JUNE 14, 2008
Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. Of course, there are still caveats - can they pass data security audits, what is your downtime risk and cost of downtime, what's the risk of the platform vendor. Amazon EC2 - uses it for natural language processing. All about end-user requests.
BeyondVC
OCTOBER 27, 2009
Today I took a sales team from a portfolio company to meet with a couple of senior IT executives at a major retail company. This is not about getting sucked into buzzwords on the cloud but really understanding the cost savings and performance benefits a company can get from transitioning some of their infrastructure to a Google-like model.
BeyondVC
NOVEMBER 17, 2008
In other words, show me the arms merchants with a recurring revenue model and frictionless sale and I will definitely be interested. Rightscale is an on-ramp to Amazon EC2 and other clouds and provides automate systems management. It kind of reminds me of a next generation Tivoli or Openview.
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