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FinTech Innovation Lab Launch Event – June 2, 2011

David Teten

Sales cycle can often go into something like co-development. 2-18 month sales cycle. Packaged platforms (Force.com/EC2/Azure) are much more likely to succeed than a pure infrastructure play. LYONS: You have to encourage companies to pay attention to these entrepreneurs. KUNZLE: Push us for fast decision.

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Cloud computing for SMBs

BeyondVC

  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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