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If sales doubled overnight, can your system infrastructure handle it? What if it tripled? This scenario is more common that one might think. Let’s take a look at the popular and relatively small photo sharing company Instagram (which had only 13 reported employees at the time it was purchased by Facebook in April 2012). On May 1, 2012 [...]

(With apologies to Abraham Maslow) One of the most interesting elements of working as a senior executive in a startup company is that such careers are typically punctuated with long periods of time off.  This is particularly true of successful exits, which provide the luxury of time off to think about the next great invention. [...]

The same year my mom started singing the famous line of Helen Reddy’s 1975 hit, “I am woman, I am strong, if I have to, I can do anything,” I was learning my first words. Surely, I was influenced by my mom’s struggle to find her footing as a career woman and as a mother. [...]

In a galaxy far-far away (the late 1970s to be exact), there were only a few choices of accounting programs available to small and midsized business (SMB) owners. Besides the shoebox, there was always the reliable One-Write System. Of course, with One-Write you needed several different systems (cash disbursements, cash receipts, payroll disbursements, etc.) where you [...]

This blog was originally published in The VAR Guy on March 19, 2012. You’re a VAR, trying to crack into the cloud solutions market. You understand why the opportunity is hot but you’re not exactly sure how to make your first monthly recurring revenue (MRR) sale. After meeting with hundreds of VARs at the HP/Axcient [...]

If I closed my eyes, I could picture myself sitting in my cubicle alongside my colleagues. With all the technologies and communication resources at my fingertips, although half-way across the country, I could be constantly connected. As technologies continue to advance, working remotely has become more common or even most practical for some people. The [...]

“The objects of sense exist only when they are perceived; the trees therefore are in the garden [...] no longer than while there is somebody by to perceive them.” – George Berkley, in A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, 1734 I’ve often wondered, if Berkley was a software engineer instead of philosopher, how [...]

By Robin Robins, channel sales/marketing guru and speaker at all HP/Axcient Cloud Roadshow events Feb. 28 – March 15. The other day I was driving to my chiropractor when I noticed another burger joint had opened up, replacing a previous restaurant that sold – you guessed it – burgers. I suppose the other one failed and was [...]

This year, my blog will focus on the questions I get asked about the most. Questions like: What type of accounting software do you use or have used? What type of payroll service? Why? Where can I get information about new regulations? The list goes on and on. Well, I am here to answer these [...]

…At least it is the question many graduates face today. After I finished my last exam in undergraduate college, I found myself pondering life and the valuable lessons that I learned in my four years at UC Santa Cruz.  It became clear to me that it wasn’t the multi-variable calculus, game-theories, or countless business and [...]