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FinTech Innovation Lab Launch Event – June 2, 2011

David Teten

We might develop ipad trading applications for customers, but not internally. LYONS: How do you grow the customer relationship thru these channels? Sales cycle can often go into something like co-development. 2-18 month sales cycle. We’re researching how to enable salesforces. Corporates don’t.

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Cloud computing for SMBs

BeyondVC

Rightscale is an on-ramp to Amazon EC2 and other clouds and provides automate systems management.    The beauty is that the whole sales cycle is quite frictionless and all web-based which means an oppotunity to scale quickly.    It kind of reminds me of a next generation Tivoli or Openview. 

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