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Tapp the catalyst of a best-of-breed cloud service alliance
Find below my last post at Tapp’s site … A new stack is forming? Here we are, back again into our blog. I apologize to our loyal following base (aka, our families and closest friends, if at all) as I do not sit down to write as often as I probably should. Truth is that [...]
More media exposure for Tapp.in … now emprendedores.es [Sp]
Maybe Obama’s next to comment on Tapp.in this week? A tribute to the team: Founder and Master Ninja Javi Perez-Griffo, co-founder and backend wizz Pablo Baños, PhD Christian Hofer of 100% German quality and Alberto del Valle, our all-Flamenco all-Andalusian frontend magic!
Sumo Logic Announces Partnership to Deliver Deep Machine Data Insights for Tapp.in Customers
I am thrilled, yesterday was big news for us at Tapp.in! We continue pushing forward in our quest to build a one-stop multi-cloud management platform, bringing in best-of-breed stacks and solutions that will bring the Cloud closer to the end-user. Right out of the oven from Mountain View …. Service Provider and Enterprise Demand for [...]
Usability over Functionality in the Public Cloud
My engineering team at Tapp.in keeps on pushing me to come out regularly. I do not know how they do it, but they do! As I sit down to write this post, I recall back in the 90’s when I conducted hi-fi Usability tests and and HCI (Human Computer Interaction) was making headways. That was [...]
… and the Product Tapp.in keeps on growing!
Busy days these days, lots to tell our friends and followers of Tapp.in! First and foremost: the Product. You’ll come to realize, as I sit down regularly to update you all on our progress, that Product comes first in our Company. No wonder … you know how the tale goes “every engineer pops up the enterprise [...]
The eclosion of an IaaS CSB “cool vendor” – A Tapp update
(I just wrote my first post in Tapp.in a few months after becoming its CEO …. here it is). It’s been quite a long time since we have updated our followers in Tapp about our progress. We have not been castaways in a tiny Pacific island of turquoise shores, nor have we been vacationing in the [...]
How the European Commission can fuel the ‘apptepreneur’ ecosystem
I was recently contacted by a Scientific Officer in the European Commission who asked my views about how the Commission could foster the ‘apptrepreneur’ ecosystem (short for application entrepreneur) and its development throughout the European Union. It is very refreshing anyway to realize how European bureaucrats proactively come out of their silos and attempt to gather [...]
Business Angel Investing in recession-laden Spain
[Scroll down for post in Spanish] I was recently invited to ECOFIN (a Spanish trade group of financiers) to give my views on Business Angel investment. This is a short summary, the presentation can be found below for reference. To be an entrepreneur in recession-laden Spain is quite fashionable these days based on the over [...]
A Supernova is born … Mobile BI for everyone! (truly)
Unless you’ve been a castaway on a remote south Pacific island, you probably have a sense that things are changing rapidly in mobile business intelligence. There’s no shortage of companies expressing a desire to grab attention by claiming that their latest incarnation of mobile BI has fundamentally changed. Often, these proclamations herald in a “new [...]
What Killed the ‘Big Brother’ CIO?
We live in a world of change with no sacred cows. Not even the super-power corporate CIO is immune. The days are gone when the CIO could run IT like a particular family fiefdom, always watching and dictating your every move, recurrently wolfing down 3%-5% (over 15% in some industries) of the company’s gross revenues [...]
Top White Lies Entrepreneurs and Startups like to Tell
Startup territory is often times akin to mischief and oxymoron: the greater transparency new technology solutions bring coexist with targeted white lies, decoys and blatant misrepresentations about the early signs of success of a startup. Strikingly, sometimes the magicians playing the tricks fall themselves fooled to the very same tricks when played on them. Urban [...]
5 rules to pitch to a VC like betting on a horse race
A few weeks back one analyst at Gartner told me a story about an old fox in a VC fund that may come in handy next time you are out there pitching to a VC about your start-up. I had used that very outline in identical sequence before and have since shared it with start-ups [...]
Business angels and Europe, like oil and water
They don’t mix because business angels in Europe simply don’t exist. It is not a lack of available capital but the absence of the liquidity events that helped create ‘true’ business angels in America. [Newsflash to some in the industry who might think or call themselves business angels ... BAs are not professional financiers, former investment bankers or [...]
“app stores are unprofitable and only for amateurish developers and solo players” … Oh, really?
It looks like a late April’s fools prank but lately I have come across some boldly dismissive opinions about the app markets, the app developers and the startups behind these, the so-called ‘apptrepreneurs’. I think they are fools! Essentially these “insiders” state some pejorative facts but fail to see the real innovation and future disruption [...]
Why enterprise software titans (might) fall!
It’s the money, stupid! For all the hype of consumer Internet, mobility and eCommerce, which are driving entrepreneurs and VCs nuts all over and turning them into alchemists in the search to turn metal into gold, like the 49ers gold rush … there is a forgotten market ripe for disruption. Oh, yes, sure there is: the [...]
In Search for the Holy Grail …. You must have a business partner!
Indeed you do need a partner … and it is not easy and may well determine the ultimate success of your startup right from its very inception (or the outright catastrophe)! I’ve been there done that, both (more about that later). Good news is that it will come to you, naturally, you will see it [...]
