Tag: Startup

  • Enter Behemoth: what AWS re:Invent means to pure-plays

    Enter Behemoth: what AWS re:Invent means to pure-plays

    Top 10 AWS re:Invent announcements and how they might impact pure-plays As a start-up founder there is always that slightly sick moment when you uncover a potential competitor in your domain or niche, and the more specialised your business is the more susceptible you are to this. Even more so when that competitor is a global […]

  • 2015 Year of the Unicorns – Bubble or Beginnings?

    2015 Year of the Unicorns – Bubble or Beginnings?

    One of the dominant themes of 2015 so far has been the rise of start-up unicorns; those with a valuation over USD $1 billion, all 103 of them as of June 2015. (Update: now 141 unicorns, four short months later!) But is this a temporary bubble due to over-hyped capital markets or is it the beginning of a fundamental […]