2011 Redux 5 Tips for Raising a Venture Round While certainly not every business needs to raise venture financing, it is the path for many high-growth technology startups. Therefore, going down the fundraising path is something many technology entrepreneurs will need to do and is a critical step in the development of their business. This can be an intimidating experience so I've put together a… Sean Ammirati View comments
2011 Redux 5 Tools to Improve Your Idea Before You Write a Line of Code In my last post on ReadWriteStart, I talked about how, in many cases, it wasn't an advantage to build your start-up in stealth mode. As a continuation of that theme, I thought it would be interesting to explore five tools you can use to iterate and improve your startup idea before writing one line of code. There is nothing worse than building a… Sean Ammirati View comments
Analysis Data Deluge - 8 Zettabytes of Data by 2015 If you think there's a lot of demand for data storage now, you better brace yourself. According to projections pulled together by CenturyLink, we're in for a deluge of big data. By 2015, CenturyLink says that we'll see a four-fold increase in data being created and replicated. This year, CenturyLink projects that 1.8 zettabytes of data will be… Enterprise Sean Ammirati View comments
cloud Live Chat Archive: Virtualize your Business Critical Workloads with Confidence Today's chat's topic is spot-on for all of you working with virtualization: Intelligence Matters: Virtualize your Business Critical Workloads with Confidence. Please join our very own Scott Fulton as he's joined by Mitch Shults from Intel and Stephen Shultz from VMware to discuss this critical topic. You can join by interacting with the chat… Sean Ammirati View comments
Analysis 4 Strategies for Managing Your Online Brand In the late 90s, Tom Peters famously declared that we were all CEOs of our personal brands. In Fast Company he wrote: "Regardless of age, regardless of position, regardless of the business we happen to be in, all of us need to understand the importance of branding. We are CEOs of our own companies: Me Inc. To be in business today, our most… Sean Ammirati View comments
Live Chats Next RWW Live Chat Tuesday 11/1 @ 10am PT & Chance to Win an iPad Mark your calendars for the next ReadWriteWeb live chat on November 1st! The first two live chats here on the ReadWriteWeb Solution Series have focused on The Changing Nature of Storage Virtualization and Virtualized Storage and High Availability Made Easy. This chat's topic is Intelligence Matters: Virtualize your Business Critical Workloads… Sean Ammirati View comments
Live Chats Next RWW Live Chat: Virtualized Storage and High Availability Made Easy A few weeks ago, we did our first RWW Live Chat with our partners VMware and NetApp. The discussion was very good and proved to be a great way to get your input about a critical issue. Today we'd like to announce our next live chat on Oct. 18 at 10 a.m. PDT. This discussion will focus on "Virtualized Storage and High Availability Made Easy" and… Sean Ammirati View comments
cloud Live Chat Archive: The Changing Nature of Storage Virtualization Today, Tuesday, September 20 at 10:00 a.m. PST, we'll be holding our first live chat on The Changing Nature of Storage Virtualization. We had a lively discussion on Twitter with yesterday's RWW Big Question. Now If you want to continue the conversation interactively on our live text chat, just come back to this post at 10:00 and join in the… Sean Ammirati View comments
Analysis Did Daily Deal Sites Jump the Shark? [Infographic] It's tough to be a startup in the daily deals space these days. To quantify some of this, CB Insights has released a report covering valuation multiples for both M&A and venture financing for daily deal startups. It's not a pretty picture as valuation multiples of both price per subscriber and price per voucher are dropping quickly. Yesterday… Sean Ammirati View comments
Live Chats First RWW Live Chat: The Changing Nature of Storage Virtualization As I mentioned in the post announcing this series, we are going to be doing three live chats as part of the ReadWriteWeb Solution Series. The first live chat will be focused on The Changing Nature of Storage Virtualization at 10 a.m. PDT on Sept. 20. This live text chat system is a new way for us to communicate with you and we're hopeful you find… Sean Ammirati View comments