VC Cafe

MAY 1, 2023

Console Wars: While Sony has a bigger market share in console sales, Microsoft emerged victorious in the console wars with its Xbox line, overcoming competition from Sony’s PlayStation and Nintendo’s gaming systems. Cloud Cybersecurity: With the rise in cloud adoption, securing cloud infrastructure has become a critical concern.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 20, 2020

Most Startups Are Poorly Managed The reality is, most 20-somethings that start businesses lack the operational, managerial, sales and financial expertise to scale anything. If you do, tread lightly and—like any good investor—make the targeting of startups less than 10% of your overall marketing and sales portfolio.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 1, 2020

by Elizabeth Thede, director of sales at dtSearch. First, for remote data, your main office can set up an enterprise or developer search engine running “on premises” or in a cloud environment like Azure or AWS. Elizabeth Thede is director of sales at dtSearch.

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Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2012

Facebook’s direct platform revenue accounted for about 15% of the company’s overall sales whereas Apple’s was less than 1%. Of course both companies use their platform to increase user lock-in which indirectly helps their core revenue streams of advertising (in Facebook’s case) and hardware sales (for Apple).

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Haystack

JUNE 5, 2018

Microsoft will offer its tools in the GitHub marketplace and integrate GitHub’s enterprise services (such mapping developer attribution to LinkedIn or with Azure for cloud services) with its own sales channels. As Garry Tan observes , the GitHub outcome demonstrates the true power of building relevant products for developers.

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BeyondVC

MARCH 8, 2017

Pivotal just announced it did over $270mm of revenue in 2016 from Cloud Foundry helping large companies with digital transformation. The need for faster, better software deployment resonated with older companies facing competition from smaller, newer rivals that already use cloud computing. There are signs Ms. also published on Medium.

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Austin Startup

JULY 22, 2021

million in funding Houston’s GroupRaise is a marketplace that helps groups of 20–200 people make reservations at restaurants willing to donate a percentage of the sales back to a charitable cause. Dallas’ ShearShare has a marketplace connecting stylists with available seats at salons and $2.3 million in funding.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JANUARY 5, 2020

Darren Oxlee is the Small and Medium Business Customer Program Manager for Microsoft New Zealand and has seen two key themes emerging amongst businesses: the first being a large migration to Cloud-based technologies and secondly, more businesses are starting to leverage deeper insights into their operational processes because of advanced data tools.

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BeyondVC

MARCH 21, 2017

As we move to a cloud-only world with instant-on capabilities and low friction in onboarding customers, why does professional services revenue keep increasing year over year for these enterprise cloud businesses. Secondly, as the world continues to move to the cloud, why does on-prem software exist any more?

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View from Seed

MAY 16, 2019

MS Office is obviously part of Microsoft overall which has many other huge businesses (Azure, Xbox, Windows, etc). Also similar to Adobe, both Office 365 and Adobe’s Creative Cloud have pretty successfully transitioned from their legacy client software business models to SaaS.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 16, 2021

ShearShare: The #1 Salon and Barbershop Booth Rental App Houston’s GroupRaise is a marketplace that helps groups of 20–200 people make reservations at restaurants willing to donate a percentage of the sales back to a charitable cause.

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BeyondVC

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Fortune 1000 companies continue their slow but steady march to the cloud unlocking significant $$$. Yes, AWS and Azure will garner a bulk of this, but still requires significant new investment to easily monitor, manage and secure this sprawling infrastructure. Edge computing will come back ?—?data data everywhere?—?can’t

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Hearpreneur

JULY 22, 2020

Instagram: social media is still an immense untapped resource for many businesses that continue to rely on foot traffic to generate sales. One of the best tools for increasing organic traffic and sales via Google, Ahrefs helps companies stay on top of their digital footprint. 18- Cloud services and digital infrastructure.

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Agile VC

MAY 16, 2019

MS Office is obviously part of Microsoft overall which has many other huge businesses (Azure, Xbox, Windows, etc). Also similar to Adobe, both Office 365 and Adobe’s Creative Cloud have pretty successfully transitioned from their legacy client software business models to SaaS.

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David Teten

JUNE 6, 2011

Sales cycle can often go into something like co-development. 2-18 month sales cycle. DAVIS: What services in the cloud are you using? LYONS: Cloud providers are ahead of the game, because they assume they’ll be attacked every day. The cloud grows/shrinks as you need it. Java/Azure appliances will come in.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

Heterogeneous architectures apply exciting advances in technologies such as GPUs (graphics cards originally invented for gaming and video), solid state memory, high network bandwidth and many other cloud components to break barriers and deliver meaningful progress. These are multi-Terabyte data loads, crunched by the Fortune 100.

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venturebeat.com

JULY 12, 2012

Cloud services. Cloud storage. Additionally, Microsoft will provide its startups with four to eight months of advice, design and development help, discounted access to Microsoft’s Azure Data Marketplace APIs, and introductions to potential partners or customers. 4 days ago. From $1.5B Editor’s picks. Enterprise.

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Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Microsoft went from MS-DOS to Windows to Office to many new reinventions, including Azure. Sometimes your technology platform changes, and you need to pivot from on-premise to the cloud. This pivot fundamentally changes your required organizational competencies, from Sales and Marketing to Engineering, Operations, and Support.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2018

As such, below are insights about this cloud service from Microsoft that hopefully will give a better perspective about Microsoft Dynamic 365. But before delving further, it is prudent to explain what Microsoft Dynamic 365 is; this is an all-in-one cloud-based solution design to meet your ERP and CRM needs. Customer Service.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 14, 2017

We basically automated that and then the business grew over eight years to do a bunch of different things that were related to sales and marketing for car dealerships. A lot of things these days all run in a cloud, and even though they run in a cloud, that provides ton of benefits. Matt Watson: Based in the Kansas City area.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 7, 2016

A good answer is previous experience in the industry, including easy sales contacts and insight into the language, life, and challenges of that industry (although this is also a trap ). LoudCloud invented cloud computing in 2000 but had to pivot away, but of course AWS, Google, Rackspace, Azure and others are a smashing success in 2016.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

For the last 75 years computers (we’ll call these classic computers) have both shrunk to pocket size (iPhones) and grown to the size of warehouses (cloud data centers), yet they all continued to operate essentially the same way. More computing power – AI In the Cloud. Some cloud vendors train on >10TB data sets.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Your vision is so limited that it’s scary to see that you are actually the CEO of a successful cloud platform. How can we spin up our SharePoint enabled Web Parts which are Windows Phone Capable to be deployed on Azure? You use marketing and sales language, when attempting to make technical points. 6 – Cloud Apps.

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Austin Startup

MAY 15, 2017

Simply put, chip suppliers like NVIDIA need applications to drive sales and use cases. This progress coupled with optionality in delivery methods ranging from private data centers or via clouds like Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure or IBM Cloud mean that the architectures can and do work together! One such offering was a $1.5M

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Windows Azure. Aptana Cloud (svn, IDE, php, java, rails etc…). Cloud Infrastructure. see the Libcloud -compatible cloud providers. cloud-based survey, free account. Cloud-based drawing tool. turn customer feedback into sales and relationships. Ruby Toolbox. Email Integration. Domains.Co.

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