A few months ago, Dean Nelson, who for many years ran the eBay data center strategy shared his vision of Infrastructure Masons ( http://www.infrastructuremasons.org ) with me and asked us if we were interested in participating. He invited us to attend the very first Infrastructure Masons Leadership Summit which is being held November 16th at …
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In 2009 AWS launched their EC2 Reserved Instance (RI) pricing model , providing a significant discount compared to the on-demand pricing model if you are willing to commit to 1 or 3 years of usage. Cost management on AWS is a hot topic, with hundreds of blogs on making the right choice of RI’s. A …
DDoS attacks are not only distressing but costly. That’s why we need now more than ever tech startups. Recently The Atlantic wrote a great blog. How Much Will Today’s Internet Outage Cost? Some companies lose tens of thousands of dollars for every minute of a DDoS attack. Internet outages continued into Friday afternoon, with major websites …
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Every time I assessed an opportunity during the last 15 years, I evaluated four questions: How big is the problem that you are addressing with the solution you need to bring to market? Each potential customer should agree that what you’re addressing is a major issue. How disruptive is the solution you are going to market …
De euforie die de laatste jaren heerste onder investeerders in cybersecurity is even getemperd. Cybersecurity is een ratrace en de technologie veroudert snel, met alle risico’s van dien. Toch voorzien kenners dat deze markt de komende jaren zal doorgroeien. Weinig mensen zullen zo uitbundig hebben gejuicht na het hacken van Sony als Andrew Chanin. De …
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I believe it makes sense to continue my crusade against angel investors asking for terms at seed stage funding that are not best practice and warn founders getting involved in such deals. In fact, angel investors should read them as well, as not following these guidelines does not only harm the company and the founders but threatens their …
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Maintaining knowledge of the current technology is one thing. Staying ahead of coming evolutions is a different ballgame altogether. To maximise our understanding of such developments, as well as to gain access to talented individuals and promising prospects, we’re actively participating in ‘user groups’, conferences, and other opportunities. This encompasses direct financial support and indirect …
BY JAN WIERSMA According to AWS CTO Werner Vogels “Cloud is now the new normal.” Where the first day keynote at AWS’s ReInvent 2015 conference was all about enabling companies to migrate their current services to the cloud, the second day keynote by Vogels was all about the ‘new normal’ – developer enablement. With new services …
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1. Selection: we select targets aggregated by our global scouting network as well as through our direct access to top tier opportunities. 2. Value proposition: we establish if and to what extent we are able to add value from the various skills and global resources of our team members. 3. It’s all about the the …
EVO Venture Partners is an extremely focused venture firm that helps to build the next wave of great companies in the business technology markets. We are company builders. We are not portfolio managers. We limit the number of investments we make so that we can dedicate our resources to the success of each. Our belief …