Startups in the Cloud

Startup to Sale in 2yrs, powered by the Cloud

patkeating — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 21:28:12 +0000

Love this story!

Babson College Podcast: Cloud Computing for the Start Up, Small & Medium Sized Business

patkeating — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 15:12:00 +0000

This event at Babson College was right up our alley. Chief executives from service providers giving straight talk about subjects including location, off cloud strategy and the enabling of entrepreneurship. The conversation ends up being a focused on best practices and offers practical guidance.

Strongly recommend a listen. The link below provides a description and links to the podcast.

http://tinyurl.com/babsoncloud

Another Great Overview

patkeating — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 14:55:08 +0000

Great mix of technical architecture and reasons startups work in the cloud. Details from Alil Mohammed of EnTrip are a useful reference.

http://www.slideshare.net/adilmd/startups-in-the-cloud

Great post on Startups and Cloud Computing

patkeating — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 14:44:11 +0000

http://www.zapthink.com/2010/04/21/startups-cloud-computing-and-the-freedom-to-innovate/

This post by Mike Kavis of MDot articulates so well the reasons for this blog and my desire to raise awareness of how cloud computing enables small business and business innovation. Take a look!

OCentric for Ecommerce Innovation

patkeating — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 14:30:24 +0000

At Optaros, we’ve launched a new product called OCentric. I thought I would share a bit of about the flexibility that this product offers both small business and corporate entrepreneurs. As of today large enterprises like South Africa’s MIH are launching entrepreneurial new businesses like flash sales site 36boutiques.com on the platform.

OCentric is an open source based SaaS, ecommerce platform that flexibly combines the capabilities traditionally found in web content management and community software. Clients choose numerous ways to combine content, commerce and community features to implement best practices, enable enhanced user experiences, test new ideas or implement new ecommerce concepts.

3 in 1 — Content. Commerce. Community. New ecommerce concepts require the fusing of functionality traditionally found in ecommerce platforms, web content management systems and community platforms. Only OCentric provides the functionality of these 3 traditionally siloed systems in an open and configurable manner for each client.

Open SaaS — Closed SaaS creates efficiencies by forcing all customers on the exact same software code; this frustrates companies when they can’t do what they want. Open SaaS leverages open source software and cloud computing to create efficiencies equal to Closed SaaS, but with the huge benefit that each company can do what they want on their unique OCentric instance.

http://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/36boutiques/ - Amazon’s 36boutiques.com case study

http://www.optaros.com/case-study/36-boutiques - Optaros’ 36boutiques.com case study

Full details on OCentric are at http://www.optaros.com/about or for feel free to reach me at work at pkeating@optaros.com and I’ll put you in touch with the right person at Optaros.

Startups in the Cloud

patkeating — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 16:53:09 +0000

Entrepreneurship is enabled today like never before. Complex and costly applications, infrastructure and scale are now available on demand to anyone to a low cost of entry.

How will this impact what some call ultra light startups to large corporations can be more entrepreneurial with greater flexibility and at lower cost than ever before. Thus, this blog will focus on the how cloud computing enables entrepreneurship.

Below are some useful links to get you started in thinking about this topic.

http://tinyurl.com/233l6mh – Cool overview

http://www.scribemedia.org/2010/05/19/cloud-computing-entrepreneurs/ – Great interview with Bob Moul, CEO of Boomi, and Sinclair Schuller, co-founder and CEO of Apprenda,