I had a great idea for a feature in the early days of CloudHealth: enabling customers to collaborate around their cloud resources. For example, a manager might want to let their DevOps engineer know they forgot to “turn the lights
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The Importance of Cycle Time in Build-Measure-Learn Loops
The Lean Startup movement popularized the concept of Build-Measure-Learn (BML) as a means to reduce the risk of the creation of new products and businesses. The concept is simple: build a Minimum Viable Product (MVP), measure the product’s effectiveness
What I Learned Starting a Company
October is the two year anniversary of the acquisition of my company, CloudHealth Technologies, by VMware. CloudHealth as a private company was definitely a labor of love for me, starting with the irrational decision to leave my job with two
Resignation: Doing It the Right Way
This evening I spent some time helping a former colleague find a new job. He joined a startup a few months back that has been particularly hard hit by the Covid-19 economic slowdown. While I am generally happy to support
The Black Swan Entrepreneurs
As the CTO and founder of CloudHealth Technologies (acquired by VMware in 2018), I am intimately familiar with the razors edge existence on which startups live. A startup typically derives its revenue from a single product or service, spends more
5 Tips To Weathering a Downturn as Technical Professional
With the coronavirus, a volatile stock market, shrinking 401Ks, and the upcoming US election, it’s hard not to be a little on edge of late. I’m not saying we are headed for a recession, but it’s hard