"I wonder if Scott Day realized that Box's largest competitor was "Microsoft's SharePoint, which has been around for a decade and has 125 million paid users and 66,000 companies, including Ford Motor, Electronic Arts and United Airlines. The service gleaned $1 billion in 2008 and has continued to grow by double digits."
What's in a name?
Think of it this way. We are in a recession but that didn't stop poor people from buying a $350 pair of Nike's and both and iPhone or and iPad. They could have bought sneakers at Marshall's and phones for free at T-Mobile. But what they were really buying was a name.
And there hasn't been a time in history where competition for that special sticky name that will replace the concepts and computing processes engrained in our mind simply as Windows, Hard Drive PC, etc. — will ever be fiercer than in the high stakes sea change of Cloud Computing.
Cloud computing is having its moment in the sun and won't be taking prisoners. It's either innovate or die.
With all those different iPhone and iPad purchases there are now thousands of files and apps spread across different devices and platforms that users have an urgent need to synchronize, store and use without client storage, bandwidth, ram costs, virus protection and ongoing upgrade costs.
Perhaps that's why Box.net stepped up to the plate and paid well-over six-figures, (but hardly what it's going to prove to be worth), to our friends at DigiMedia to upgrade to Box.com.
And why Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey who learned the lesson of a bad name choice right at Twitter, truncated start-up SquareUp.com to Square.com.
After truncating its name, Square, which makes its money by collecting transaction fees, has helped merchants process sales for $4 billion worth of goods — doubled what it announced late last year. More than 1 million people are able to accept credit cards with Square. Their average purchase is $75. What is the domain name worth when you consider those stakes?
'Today, the company co-founded by Twitter inventor Jack Dorsey that first tackled the credit card transaction process, unwrapped Square Register, a free Apple iPad app designed to modernize point-of-sale devices for small merchants.
"I truly believe POS, as you know it today, is dead," says Megan Quinn, director of products at Square. "This will bring Square to an entirely new, small-market audience (bricks-and-mortar stores).""
Evidently, Plan B worked. There are more than 9 million Box users, with 500,000 joining each month. A typical Box customer, AAA, plans to deploy the service to all 2,100 of its employees nationwide so they can share documents and collaborate, says Craig Butler, chief information officer at auto group AAA. Some 82% of the Fortune 500 use Box.
"Box is hiring staff at the same pace as it is gaining customers. The 400-person company added 15 employees one day on a recent visit and is well on its way to 600-plus by the end of this year. Like Dropbox, it just moved into new digs — a sparkling new 97,000-square-foot facility, with a 15-foot-high spiral slide, in nearby Palo Alto, Calif.
"This is one of the best times to invest in enterprise software after a couple of boring years (in that market)," says VC Weiss.
For businesses, having shared data that are always up to date "is crucial," says Terri McClure, an analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group. She estimates that about a third of companies will adopt cloud storage solutions "for collaboration and access between devices."
Lingering in the background is Google and its long-rumored storage service, called Drive (The domain name Drive.com has been owned for many years under semi privavy with a Paul Ginsburg listed as Administrative contact.)
"Google declined to comment on if or when Drive might launch. But analysts speculate that Drive would let people store photos, documents and videos on Google's servers so that they could be accessible from any Web-connected device and easily shared with others. If you wanted to e-mail a video shot from a smartphone, for instance, you could upload it to the Web through a Drive mobile app and e-mail a link to the video rather than a bulky file."
"Then there's Apple's iCloud and Amazon.com's various personal services — not to mention Microsoft's SkyDrive. ICloud, the hub of Apple's digital lifestyle strategy, boasts 100 million users since it became available in October. The service, built into any iOS device, is positioned as an ecosystem for iOS users for the best possible experience, according to Apple."
Then there is DropBox." For millions, the answer has been to "Dropbox me." The 80-person company has more than 50 million users — and adds another every second. Some 1 billion files are saved on the service every three days.
"Dropbox is the Switzerland, an independent company to pull it all together," says Bryan Schreier, a partner at Sequoia Capital and a Dropbox board member."
"Meanwhile, several of Silicon Valley's top venture-capital firms have dropped more than $250 million on Dropbox, vaulting its value to $4 billion and giving Houston — at least on paper — a net worth of about $600 million, according to published reports"
"What we have is a basic tool for anybody in the digital age," says Houston, 28, clad in his usual Dropbox hoodie and jeans. The company, which he says is profitable, gleans revenue through the thousands of customers every day who gobble up their free 2 gigabytes of storage on Dropbox and upgrade to 50 GB for $10 a month or 100 GB for $20 a month."
"In February, Dropbox moved into an 85,000-square-foot spread with its own cafe and gym and views of the San Francisco Bay Area. It will have enough room to grow to a few hundred staffers in the coming year."
As For The Name of That Car in Photo (by Chris Woodyard/DriveOn.com owned by Ellen's Warner Brothers producers who used the car and Bieber in a promotional gimmick that worked so well, it even sucked me in)
And now that both Justin Bieber and Domaining's Most Influential Person, Braden Pollock, drive a Fisker, what's a Fisker?
And there hasn't been a time in history where competition for that special sticky name that will replace the concepts and computing processes engrained in our mind simply as Windows, Hard Drive PC, etc. — will ever be fiercer than in the high stakes sea change of Cloud Computing.
Cloud computing is having its moment in the sun and won't be taking prisoners. It's either innovate or die.
With all those different iPhone and iPad purchases there are now thousands of files and apps spread across different devices and platforms that users have an urgent need to synchronize, store and use without client storage, bandwidth, ram costs, virus protection and ongoing upgrade costs.
Perhaps that's why Box.net stepped up to the plate and paid well-over six-figures, (but hardly what it's going to prove to be worth), to our friends at DigiMedia to upgrade to Box.com.
And why Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey who learned the lesson of a bad name choice right at Twitter, truncated start-up SquareUp.com to Square.com.
After truncating its name, Square, which makes its money by collecting transaction fees, has helped merchants process sales for $4 billion worth of goods — doubled what it announced late last year. More than 1 million people are able to accept credit cards with Square. Their average purchase is $75. What is the domain name worth when you consider those stakes?
'Today, the company co-founded by Twitter inventor Jack Dorsey that first tackled the credit card transaction process, unwrapped Square Register, a free Apple iPad app designed to modernize point-of-sale devices for small merchants.
"I truly believe POS, as you know it today, is dead," says Megan Quinn, director of products at Square. "This will bring Square to an entirely new, small-market audience (bricks-and-mortar stores).""
Shortly after the renaming Box.com rebuffed a $600 Million offer from our other friends at Citrix. They didn't want to be bought by Citrix or Google, they wanted to be the next better thing that eventually crushes Citrix and Google.
In USA Today's latest article titled "Start-ups Dropbox and Box reach for the cloud," could have well be named any one who can supply names like these can names his price and reach for the clouds. Square replaces the cash register. Makes every employee with a tablet as cashier at large following in Apple's footsteps. What's that worth?
I wonder if Scott Day realized that Box's largest competitor was "Microsoft's SharePoint, which has been around for a decade and has 125 million paid users and 66,000 companies, including Ford Motor, Electronic Arts and United Airlines. The service gleaned $1 billion in 2008 and has continued to grow by double digits."
That's the money that's about to change hands right now. And there's less than a half dozen names competing for the prize, that is a market full of 800-pound gorillas like Apple, Google and Amazon as its competitors.
The article continued, "Box was conceived for consumers, but the specter of competing with Google and Microsoft drove Levie & Co. to the enterprise. In 2007, "We produced a memo that said we had to change the entire company," Levie, 27, says. "It was my Jerry Maguire moment, but not as dramatic, I confess."
"We scaled up. The iPhone was a shot-in-the-arm accelerant for our business," Levie says. "The implications for consumers trying to get to data everywhere " — health care, legal, real estate, banking — "is tremendous."
In USA Today's latest article titled "Start-ups Dropbox and Box reach for the cloud," could have well be named any one who can supply names like these can names his price and reach for the clouds. Square replaces the cash register. Makes every employee with a tablet as cashier at large following in Apple's footsteps. What's that worth?
I wonder if Scott Day realized that Box's largest competitor was "Microsoft's SharePoint, which has been around for a decade and has 125 million paid users and 66,000 companies, including Ford Motor, Electronic Arts and United Airlines. The service gleaned $1 billion in 2008 and has continued to grow by double digits."
That's the money that's about to change hands right now. And there's less than a half dozen names competing for the prize, that is a market full of 800-pound gorillas like Apple, Google and Amazon as its competitors.
The article continued, "Box was conceived for consumers, but the specter of competing with Google and Microsoft drove Levie & Co. to the enterprise. In 2007, "We produced a memo that said we had to change the entire company," Levie, 27, says. "It was my Jerry Maguire moment, but not as dramatic, I confess."
"We scaled up. The iPhone was a shot-in-the-arm accelerant for our business," Levie says. "The implications for consumers trying to get to data everywhere " — health care, legal, real estate, banking — "is tremendous."
Evidently, Plan B worked. There are more than 9 million Box users, with 500,000 joining each month. A typical Box customer, AAA, plans to deploy the service to all 2,100 of its employees nationwide so they can share documents and collaborate, says Craig Butler, chief information officer at auto group AAA. Some 82% of the Fortune 500 use Box.
"Box is hiring staff at the same pace as it is gaining customers. The 400-person company added 15 employees one day on a recent visit and is well on its way to 600-plus by the end of this year. Like Dropbox, it just moved into new digs — a sparkling new 97,000-square-foot facility, with a 15-foot-high spiral slide, in nearby Palo Alto, Calif.
"This is one of the best times to invest in enterprise software after a couple of boring years (in that market)," says VC Weiss.
For businesses, having shared data that are always up to date "is crucial," says Terri McClure, an analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group. She estimates that about a third of companies will adopt cloud storage solutions "for collaboration and access between devices."
Lingering in the background is Google and its long-rumored storage service, called Drive (The domain name Drive.com has been owned for many years under semi privavy with a Paul Ginsburg listed as Administrative contact.)
"Google declined to comment on if or when Drive might launch. But analysts speculate that Drive would let people store photos, documents and videos on Google's servers so that they could be accessible from any Web-connected device and easily shared with others. If you wanted to e-mail a video shot from a smartphone, for instance, you could upload it to the Web through a Drive mobile app and e-mail a link to the video rather than a bulky file."
"Then there's Apple's iCloud and Amazon.com's various personal services — not to mention Microsoft's SkyDrive. ICloud, the hub of Apple's digital lifestyle strategy, boasts 100 million users since it became available in October. The service, built into any iOS device, is positioned as an ecosystem for iOS users for the best possible experience, according to Apple."
Then there is DropBox." For millions, the answer has been to "Dropbox me." The 80-person company has more than 50 million users — and adds another every second. Some 1 billion files are saved on the service every three days.
"Dropbox is the Switzerland, an independent company to pull it all together," says Bryan Schreier, a partner at Sequoia Capital and a Dropbox board member."
"Meanwhile, several of Silicon Valley's top venture-capital firms have dropped more than $250 million on Dropbox, vaulting its value to $4 billion and giving Houston — at least on paper — a net worth of about $600 million, according to published reports"
"What we have is a basic tool for anybody in the digital age," says Houston, 28, clad in his usual Dropbox hoodie and jeans. The company, which he says is profitable, gleans revenue through the thousands of customers every day who gobble up their free 2 gigabytes of storage on Dropbox and upgrade to 50 GB for $10 a month or 100 GB for $20 a month."
"In February, Dropbox moved into an 85,000-square-foot spread with its own cafe and gym and views of the San Francisco Bay Area. It will have enough room to grow to a few hundred staffers in the coming year."
And now that both Justin Bieber and Domaining's Most Influential Person, Braden Pollock, drive a Fisker, what's a Fisker?
Again according to USA today (one of my most valuable daily reads) "Such was the case last week when the Beeb received the surprise gift: the new Fisker Karma. The singing sensation is just the latest of the Hollywood elite reportedly tooling around in a $102,000 Karma, joining the likes of Ashton Kutcher and Leonardo DiCaprio."
"The Karma is the first product of a start-up car company, an attempt to unite the latest in luxury car style — the slope-backed auto resembles a Jaguar or an Audi A7 — with plug-in hybrid economy. With a name like Karma, you know it's oh-so-Hollywood: It even has an animal-products-free (no leather) edition."
"The Karma is the first product of a start-up car company, an attempt to unite the latest in luxury car style — the slope-backed auto resembles a Jaguar or an Audi A7 — with plug-in hybrid economy. With a name like Karma, you know it's oh-so-Hollywood: It even has an animal-products-free (no leather) edition."
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