The cloud delivers for startups
September 8th, 2008The title says it all - we are running this business entirely out of the cloud. It is incredible to see how capable the cloud has become over the past few years - my husband’s startup in 2006 didn’t have the options we have today - Google Sites, Presently, and a much better Spreadsheet product. Amazon’s S3 had just launched then, but not yet EC2, and certainly not Google’s competing offering. Wordpress was around but is much better now, and Disqus adds a much-needed commenting/forums power-up. We are able to scale slowly and efficiently on a variable cost (or zero cost) basis due to these incredible systems.
Beyond the cost side of the equation, the ability to easily collaborate with our distributed team is incredible - our private Google Site contains all planning, documentation, and business information related to MonkeyAnalytics. James can see at a glance what I’ve recently changed; all of our documents are searchable by any member of the team.
It’s fun to be part of this new world, even more fun to know we’re building and contributing to it in our own way. We can’t wait to see how our cloud offering changes its market and business behaviors.