My slides from LaunchScale 2014

1. “The Process"
Mike Miller
Co-Founder, Chief Scientist
@mlmilleratmit

2. ships with a mobile strategy
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Before
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4. 2005. We build first cluster
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After
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6. “In an interesting and fairly brilliant competitive move,
IBM has bought a startup called Cloudant…”
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7. WTH happened in the middle?!
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8. Money
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Time

9. 1) Survive
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10. 2) Learn what you actually sell
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11. {Cloudant: ‘Reality’}
GROW MORE SLEEP MORE
Time Scale Trust
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12. Tactic
Focus on your core competency
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13. Tactic
“Don’t make me build it myself.”
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14. Cloud vendors in a fight for your stack
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15. 3) Choose your wave… and board
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Cloud, NoSQL
Open Source
Communities
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16. 4) Marry Up
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17. 4) Partner up
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Cloudant
AWS IBM/Softlayer Microsoft Rackspace

18. Tactic
Quantitative partner evaluation
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19. Bill Lapcevic (NewRelic)
http://www.heavybit.com/library/developer-go-to-market/video/2013-09-10-bill-lapcevic
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20. Thanks!
cloudant.com
mike@cloudant.com
@mlmilleratmit
#Cloudant
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#learnmore
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IRC
Softlayer Catalyst