The Leading Cause of Startup Death
If you own, run, or work in a startup and you've never heard of The Startup Owner's Manual, The Four Steps to Epiphany, or Steve Blank, you NEED to remedy that as soon as possible. Over the last few years, Steve's speaking and writing have been an inspiration to many...
A Worthy Trend: Google Nexus Q Made In The U.S.A.
Last week the tech world was a little surprised by Google's decison to make the Nexus Q using parts and labors of American manufacture. The trend towards American manufacture isn't purely tech, with many solid organizations working hard to ensure the continued...
How a seemingly well planned server move crashed, burned, and rose from the ashes
The following article is being re-syndicated, courtesy of Software by Rob. About 8 months ago I acquired a small startup called HitTail. You can read more about the acquisition here. When the deal closed, the app was in bad shape. Within 3 weeks I had to move the...
2012 RBC Primer: Telecoms, Towers, Hosting
This just in... Data Centers make really good business sense. Surprised? Neither were we. For those who take the time to read RBC Capital Market Primers, this Canadian investment bank with assets around $710 Billion, puts together wicked industry vertical reports....
A Cloud Divided: Part Two
In Cloud Divided Part One we examined the developing divide within the elastic hosting space between large public wholesale hosting providers such as AWS, Rackspace, and Google App Engine and smaller hosting firms run by teams of primarily veteran engineering talent....
Person we like: Ted Hahs
If you know me, you've likely heard my rant on how disturbing it is that ethics and accountability are so severely lacking and glossed over in most high tech companies today. Though my friends who work in other industries like to remind me that high tech isn't the...
Case Study: The Startup IT Architect
You're a startup that's about to land a Series A round of funding after successfully proving your SaaS application designed for call centers, leveraging the Seed Stage capital raised 2 years prior. Your team, though experienced with UI and application development,...
A Cloud Divided: Part One
Having kept a close eye on the elastic hosting ecosystem and all the players that have launched offerings over the past decade, we're happy to see some real differentiation finally developing in this space. The one we will be focused on here is that separating large...
PARTNER WE LIKE: ENKI
One of the hand full of providers we love working with that fill the "private IT service and managed elastic hosting provider owned and run by engineers" niche we speak about in A Cloud Divided: Part One is called ENKI, headquartered in Mountain View California and...
Nominate For Best Short Film?
Watch this video. Sent to us by our friend Matt at BlueBox. WARNING: Earmuffs may be required around children. Productivity will not ensue but it might make you laugh. Best line: "I don't have any credentials but I don't need them because I'm super f*cking awesome and...