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Speeding Up the Internet: Algorithms Guru and Akamai Founder Tom Leighton (Part 9)
SM: One of the concerns you must be facing now is how big can the CDN business be, and how fast can it grow? I am sure your investors like to see diversification as it is both risk and business diversification. Application acceleration provides that diversification, and I like it. TL: We consider it to
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Cracking the Very Small Business Market: PayCycle CEO Jim Heeger (Part 11)
SM: I was reading an article about how a lot of startups are using credit cards to finance their early days. American Express is a very common way of financing startups, and I have used it myself. JH: Rene used to use that as well. It was a big day when he got his name
Speeding Up the Internet: Algorithms Guru and Akamai Founder Tom Leighton (Part 8)
SM: How do you provide fast, reliable service globally? What is the secret there? TL: There are a bunch of things we do for that. In the old adage, having our servers near the end users rewards them. We sit on top of and find better routes on the Internet. We don’t change the protocol,
Cracking the Very Small Business Market: PayCycle CEO Jim Heeger (Part 10)
SM: That is good insight to carry to the audience in this particular type of business. I have heard that about the GoToMeeting product as well, that they have no vertical bias at all. They are trying to focus on very small businesses as well, and are finding no vertical alignment whatsoever. Switching topics, you
Web 3.0 & Comcast (Part 2)
Vertical Strategy Comcast formed Comcast Interactive Media (CIM) in 2005 to develop and grow the Company’s Internet businesses, including the Comcast.net portal. Comcast owns and operates various entertainment, shopping, movie, video, sports, travel and gaming sites. Some of Comcast’s most popular online properties are Comcast.net, Fancast.com, Ziddio, and Gameinvasion.net. We will take a look at
Speeding Up the Internet: Algorithms Guru and Akamai Founder Tom Leighton (Part 7)
SM: This is a really big problem. How close to the last mile can you get? You are going to need millions of servers to cover the world. TL: I don’t think so. The way we think, a server can serve a gigabit a second. It is pretty economical. If you look at TV quality,
Cracking the Very Small Business Market: PayCycle CEO Jim Heeger (Part 9)
SM: Out of 5.2M small businesses, only 800,000 are using a software service for payroll? JH: It is under 16%, and that is why this is an attractive space because it is un-penetrated. All 5.2M of those people have some solution, but our belief is that a lot of them are doing it manually and
Web 3.0 & Comcast (Part 1)
Introduction Comcast Corporation is the largest cable operator in the United States and one of the leading communications and entertainment companies in the world focusing on broadband communications and content. Comcast’s operations can be broadly categorized into three segments: * Cable which includes cable systems, video, regional sports and news networks, Internet and phone services,
