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Strategy Roundtable: 5 Cloud Computing Opportunities for Entrepreneurs

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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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First Mover Fallacy

Agile VC

Dropbox (cloud storage). Work Out Early Kinks - Dropbox wasn’t the first consumer cloud storage service. Companies like xDrive and others let you upload and retrieve files from the web nearly a decade earlier, and there were others like Carbonite that created hybrid local/cloud storage solutions.

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The Changing Structure of the VC Industry

Both Sides of the Table

2007 was the watershed year. Cheap, mobile, social, global, massive, always-on, one-click-purchase has led to the most successful companies of our era hitting unprecedented scale early in their development and has massively shifted the value captured from post-IPO investors to pre-IPO investors as is demonstrated in the chart above.

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Cracking The Code: SaaS Multiples: Recovery or Bubble?

Cracking the Code

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Cloud Computing. (1). Unveilling of the Bessemer's 10 laws of Cloud Comp. ► 2007. (10). Global warming: a plague for humanity? Best Venture and Technology Podcasts for 2007. internet.

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Cracking The Code: Best Venture and Technology Podcasts for 2007

Cracking the Code

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Best Venture and Technology Podcasts for 2007. Cloud Computing. (1). Unveilling of the Bessemer's 10 laws of Cloud Comp. ► 2007. (10). Global warming: a plague for humanity? internet.

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Cracking The Code: Unveilling of the Bessemer's 10 laws of Cloud.

Cracking the Code

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Unveilling of the Bessemers 10 laws of Cloud Computing and SaaS - Winter 2010 Release. The Cloud computing stack is currently defined by three levels: SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS. Tuesday, November 10, 2009. Mind the GAAP!

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Cracking The Code: Global warming: a plague for humanity?

Cracking the Code

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Friday, March 30, 2007. Global warming: a plague for humanity? After all, global warming might not be a bad thing for everyone. Cloud Computing. (1). ▼ 2007. (10). Global Warning!