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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. Java/Azure appliances will come in. LYONS: You have to encourage companies to pay attention to these entrepreneurs.

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The Virus Survival Strategy For Your Startup

Steve Blank

And how much are variable expenses (salaries, consultants, commission, travel, AWS/Azure charges, supplies, etc.?). All your assumptions about customers, sales cycle and most importantly, revenue, burn rate and runway are no longer true. If you are selling to businesses (a B-to-B market) have your customers’ sales dropped?

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boldstart in 2016, enterprise tech in 2017

BeyondVC

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. Fortune 1000 companies continue their slow but steady march to the cloud unlocking significant $$$. and we expect this trend to continue.

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