Determination: The Dawn Wall goes Free
Everyone talks about grit and what it takes to make a start up successful – and they are right. I am not going to add much to that discussion here today. Sometimes though it can be hard for…
AWS Re:Invent 2014
AWS is a force. The claim is that they have 5x the capacity of all the other public cloud vendors – combined. The pace of innovation on the platform, the quality of the services and…
OpenStack StartUp Ecosystem – It’s Real!
For the upcoming OpenStack conference in Paris, I thought it would be interesting to take a look at how the ecosystem has evolved since OpenStack started. Storm has been fortunate to be involved early and…
A MetaCloud Journey
Congratulations to the team at MetaCloud. The acquisition by Cisco was announced today. I am obviously very proud to have been involved with the company. It’s something special to have seen the team make it…
SaaS Metrics
There are others that have spent much more time thinking about metrics in SaaS. I am enjoying watching the community develop better and better ways about thinking about these new businesses. They make up the…
Surviving Technology Extinction: Mobile, Cloud and SaaS Are the IT Asteroids of our Day
Jeff Haynie who is the CEO and co-founder of Appcelerator recently put together a great post with Re/code called Surviving Technology Extinction. It is a great read. Like so many things in life, one can…
OpenStack 2014 – Panel Discussion on Building a Case for OpenStack
Ryan Floyd, Managing Director Storm Ventures Matt Haines, Vice President Time Warner Andy Salo, VP Product Management RGB Networks Douglas Soltesz, Vice President IST Budd Van Lines
The End of the Beginning – State of OpenStack
With the OpenStack Summit in Atlanta approaching next week – it has me thinking about the state of OpenStack and cloud infrastructure. I have been a believer for a long time. I have made only…
Double down on what is working as a Startup
When business starts to accelerate in a startup, before you really hit any scale, its easy to fall into the trap of focusing on new strategies for growth. The new shiny object. We have to…
Having to sell a business is never easy – One specific example
If you are an entrepreneur or an early stage investor of any kind, it’s very likely that you have failed at some point in your career. I have. I have made a lot of mistakes….