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Comment on The AlwaysOn OnDemand 100 Top Company Competition by Mike

Mike — Tue, 03 Dec 2013 16:14:32 +0000

this is soooo american centric – guys it aint Kansas anymore dorithy!! Come on learn another language and look past techcrunch China is rippin you another one and the teams you are picking are so Red Herring last decade.

Comment on Maker Studios Named OnHollywood 100 B2B Company of the Year by MrDills

MrDills — Thu, 28 Nov 2013 17:48:06 +0000

B2B company of the year? Really?! Far less than 1% of Maker’s claimed views are channels they actually own and operate. Everything else is individual Youtubers who sign into Maker with the hopes of making more money. Ynon Kreiz said the goal is to make more quality content. I would say to make content that Maker owns period. Didn’t I read on Deadline Ynon exited Endemol in over $800 million pounds of debt with a $40,000,000 parachute? Got to love Hollywood. TV didn’t work out let’s bring him into new media. Looking forward to seeing how Ynon’s pick McPherson does with making hit shows for Maker. They will need it.

Comment on Stitch Fix: Reinventing Retail Through Personalization by Jeremy Geiger

Jeremy Geiger — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 03:20:34 +0000

Fully agree that Big Data can be used for value creation in terms of personalization and building barriers to entry, in the shopping category. But I’m still not totally bought-in to the ship-from-warehouse model where the cost of a shopper return, mainly benefits the courier companies. I hope brick and mortar retailers start leveraging their existing customer bases/loyalty, data assets and their biggest balance sheet assets (stores and in-store inventory) to combine the best of eCommerce and Brick & Mortar, for an efficient, social, entertaining, practical and just-in-time online-to-offline (O2O) shopping experience.

Comment on Announcing the 2013 OnDemand 100 Top Private Companies by Derrick Barstool

Derrick Barstool — Thu, 19 Sep 2013 17:41:46 +0000

Interesting list. I guess you can guess which way the future is going with these companies.

Comment on Hybrid Cloud Battle Will be Won in the Middle Ground by Ian Waring

Ian Waring — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 11:51:37 +0000

An alternative view. So called “Hybrid Clouds” are the last steps at the top of a pricing cliff, where existing enterprise hardware and software suppliers think they can arrest the inevitable migration to public cloud services. These don’t have the margins or characteristics to support the existing business models of the current technology vendors.

Three data points. Three years ago, several companies were asked to bid for an email solution covering 500,000 users. The company I was with at the time, using branded servers, commercially licensed software and our own hosting centers, bidded in at $10/user/year. We lost to one of the “at scale, public cloud” vendors who bid, and successfully delivered, at $0.20/user/year.

The second was when I started my own company. I have two Linux servers, 2-CPU, 1 GB memory, 30GB SSD and 3TB/month network bandwidth for $10/server/month each, sitting in Digital Ocean in Amsterdam.

A third is that you can provision storage at scale – using commodity hardware and a Gluster based software layer – at circa 25% of the cost of comparable EMC or NetApp stuff at scale.

Amazon are at the premium end of public cloud space. Digital Ocean are currently growing at 30% per month; in June alone, they absorbed over 600 AWS and 1,500 Rackspace customers.

These are fairly simple services, with a simple API and that you can daisy chain together to build pretty impressive, open source based IT infrastructure.

How do IBM, HP, Fujitsu, EMC, NetApp, VMware and even Microsoft exist is this new world? If I was in their shoes, I’d be trying to sell a gradual migration to the inevitable by the route most likely to preserve own margins for the longest time possible. That’s what all the PR on Private and Hybrid clouds is all about. Meanwhile, there is an inevitability that we’re watching the hall of marbles unfold in all it’s glory (see http://www.ianwaring.com/post/52315119265/enterprise-hardware-software-and-the-hall-of for a fuller explanation). That is the true disruption unfolding before us all.

Comment on Who Are the Power Players in Technology Business Media? by David H. Deans

David H. Deans — Wed, 11 Sep 2013 21:53:43 +0000

Congratulations to everyone that’s been nominated. This is a comprehensive list of talented folks.

Comment on Who Are the Mobile Power Players? by Nicole Freeman

Nicole Freeman — Wed, 28 Aug 2013 16:12:34 +0000

Thanks for the tip, Louis. We’ve updated our nominations post to reflect Kang’s new position and added Dr. Kim for Samsung Ventures.

Comment on Getting Back Your Series A Mojo by Gene Massey

Gene Massey — Fri, 23 Aug 2013 06:28:11 +0000

Mark’s company is now called Upfront Ventures. Mark you are the BEST and thanks for all you do for entrepreneurs.

Comment on Getting Back Your Series A Mojo by Art Howe

Art Howe — Fri, 23 Aug 2013 01:21:56 +0000

Mark:

Your spelling, use of the right word and punctuation is amateurish.

I’m sure you hot shot with plenty of advice (and pretty good advice, too) but get it together, man.

Learn to write.

Art

Comment on The Wisdom of Differentiation by Pat Johnson

Pat Johnson — Wed, 21 Aug 2013 16:55:32 +0000

This article is both very general and very obvious. It is so basic, in fact, that I wouldn’t expect an early-stage company to make it at all if the management didn’t know all of this going in and much, much more. The level of this piece is very low in terms of value, content and sophistication. It doesn’t speak well to the intelligence and capability level of the writer nor does it reflect well on AlwaysON, whose conferences and events are always conducted at a much higher level of discourse than this piece of generic nothing. Suggest that AlwaysON apply more editorial control to the content it publishes in order to protect its outstanding brand and pass this type of stuff along to a public high school system teaching an entrepreneurship elective where it belongs.