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The Cloud Part Two: Disruption in motion in enterprise computing
As I said in my last post, Cloud computing has made operating systems, databases and applications more available, making business more democratic. A few concepts have been game changers in this disruption, and I’d like to touch on them. Note: I’m only mentioning a few key companies here, because this post can’t be 5,000 words…
Cloud Computing: The Democratization of IT, Part One
Cloud computing has enabled one of the most significant disruptions of the computing world in history. But to understand its magnitude, let’s look at the pre-Cloud world. Step into my time machine (ripply, wavy visual effects at no extra charge)… Welcome to the pre-Cloud world! Here, storage and computing power can only be had by…
Intimidation…. Sign of strength or insecurity???
Over the last few months in my lectures at universities and in working with entrepreneurs either as board member, advisor or mentor, we have often discussed the topic of intimidation. In this context, I am referring to behavior exhibited by one party specifically in order to take control, force the opposing view/person to back down,…
Get yourself out of your way…
I think it is human psychology to need to find a reason/person to justify why we have not reached our goals. Often we will say things like ‘my manager did not support my promotion’, or ‘I didn’t become an entrepreneur because I did not have the financial support’, or ‘ I couldn’t do the things…
Why aren’t there more women entrepreneurs?
Women own the majority of small businesses around the world. Women are talented, hard working, educated, have many of the qualities necessary for leadership. Yet somehow the percentage of women entrepreneurs running successful startups runs in the single digits. The businesses women own tend to be low-impact and make up perhaps 5% of GDP: home-based…
Why do women shy away from being investors?
We have a huge problem folks… We simply don’t have enough women investors in hi-tech and startups as a whole around the globe. Why not? Let me start off by saying that ‘women’ are the larger demographic ‘purchasers’ globally. Women are constantly making purchase decisions and very involved in making global ‘buy’ decisions. I was…