fantasy vc - apprenda
Considering the press and recent funding round for my friends at Apprenda, it seems a bit disingenuous to fantasy vc them. But no matter. I’ve been convinced of their success since the first...
View Articlethe service and api supply chain
When we visit a site, start an app, or do just about anything online—what lives behind that one object is 10s, sometimes 100s, of services. As Mr Krugman notes, the great transport and communication...
View Articlefantasy vc - virtustream
This fantasy vc post comes from something I wrote about in “what we don’t know about private cloud” and “the three cloud questions you have to answer”: The line between what we do in the public cloud...
View Articlecommunication in the service and api supply chain
Another thought about “the service and api supply chain” —how do we know what an API provider or servicer can do? It’s unlikely that any given servicer of an API will service the same subset of that...
View Articlefantasy founder - relationship management is engagement management
Continuing an occasional series about products and companies that I’d like to build or see built someday. There’s a natural cadence to communication. We meet or talk or email or txt or whatever. And we...
View Articleooda redux - digging in and keeping context
Putting together some thoughts from a few posts from 2012 on OODA [one, two, three]. For some reason, the idea had been getting a lot of airtime in pop-tech-culture. Like most things that get...
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design for service - spaces
And now for something completely different. If you interact with me (or my twitter feed) to any degree, you might’ve noticed… coffee — Aneel (@aneel) February 23, 2014 Drinking a Fantôme Saison...
View Articlefantasy founder - beta club
Continuing an occasional series about products and companies that I’d like to build or see built someday. Tech decision making does not scale. The last mile of commitment always comes at the price of...
View Articlethe web in twenty minus five
My friend Stu tagged me to answer these questions five years ago: How has the Web changed your life? How has the Web changed business and society? What do you think the Web will look like in 20 years?...
View Articlefantasy vc - knodes
Continuing a series on startups I'd put a bet on if I could. At New York Tech Meetup last year I saw a presentation by the founders of Knodes. It got me then and, eight months later, I still think...
View Articlewhat aws is not
In 2004, SQS and AWIS beta-ed. In 2005, MT beta-ed. In 2006, S3 and EC2 beta-ed. From there, the pace of releases has skyrocketed (something we should put value on). AWS started by turning basic...
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design for service - affordances
In thinking about the importance of how space was set up, both for staff and customers, in design for service - spaces I wrote that one of the components of service is the affordances created in the...
View Articlefantasy vc - grand rounds
Continuing a series on startups I'd put a bet on if I could. A few months ago, my friend James joined Grand Rounds. Most of Silicon Valley spouts a fountain of bullshit claiming change-the-world...
View Articlefantasy founder - identify me
Continuing an occasional series about products and companies that I’d like to build or see built someday. This is a recurring idea that’s been bouncing around my brain (and written about) since the...
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devops appops infraops all the ops
Donnie Berkholz wrote a great post about what’s actually happening as Dev vs Ops becomes DevOps [I know I know, keep your groaning to a minimum]. This is a conversation I had frequently at Gartner....
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