I am reading way too many articles and blogs really dinging Google for its Gmail outage today. Don’t get me wrong – I was as impacted by this as anybody else – I use Gmail and Google Accounts for personal as well as multiple businesses.
However, the last Gmail outage that I can recall was in Feb for 2.5 hours. Before that sometime in August of 2008 – if memory serves me.
Overall, for the type of service that is being provided, the volume, the # of customers and the fact that it is “FREE” .. I beg to argue that the outage can be forgiven. Hey.. any other email service I have used in the past or still use (I will not take names) tend to have more issues then Gmail has ever had!! But no one seems to make a big deal of that….
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I recently saw these presentations on Social Media and wanted to share it… Enjoy.
It is interesting to compare this to the second presentation along the same lines done 1 year later…
I am partnering with Bodhtree Consulting, a boutique consulting form from Hyderabad, India to build a SaaS and Cloud Computing center of excellence. Here is a recent press release announcing this partnership.
CNBC
Reuters
Sys-Con
Financial Express
CIOL
Silicon India
EFY Times
India PRwire
Neeta is starting her flight lessons; welcome to the world of being a student pilot….
She has about 8 hours now, and today she did a phenomenal take-off from Hawthorne. She is within private pilot limits on slow flight, power-on stalls and power-off stalls (dirty configuration). Today, she was also doing both the stalls with a shallow 20 degree bank. Not bad!!!
Her rudder control is not perfect.. but oh well ! She is just in her first week of training. What do u expect!
See this interesting blog posting about the value of a Consulting CTO. Consulting CTO’s can help you out on a short term basis; generally for small amounts of equity.
Depending on the type and amount of work; you will end up giving 25,000-100,000 stock options (where you have 10 million outstanding @ .01 – .10 cents). These will generally vest based on the terms of engagement and deliverables you require from the freelance / consulting CTO.
My recommendation; as someone who actively plays this role for multiple startups is to be very clear up front on the scope of involvement, deliverables and compensation. Startups are by nature fluid. The core team and all need others involved to be flexible; but putting some structure around this at the beginning can lead to a successful relationship long term.
