Startup@Cloud: 33 tips for running your company using cloud-based software [Kindle Edition]

Paul M. Duvall (Author)

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Product Description

In this booklet, you get 33 action-packed tips to get your startup running in hours. Run your company from Starbucks using only a web browser. If you're already running your company using 100% cloud-based software, you don't need Startup@Cloud; otherwise, this is for you (Booklet: 6,600 Words; Updated November 2011).

Can you:
* Get your company operating in hours instead of days, weeks or months?
* Run your company from anywhere you have Internet access?
* Rent your computing infrastructure for $50 a month instead of investing thousands in costly hardware and software?
* Use free, web-based applications to operate your business?

Absolutely, and much, much more.

Startup@Cloud is the culmination of award-winning author Paul Duvall's desire to run his software company, Stelligent, from anywhere while operating as lean as possible. Companies no longer need to be confined by location or traditional startup costs. Duvall demonstrates how anyone can get their company operating using - many of them free - cloud-based software and run their startups rather than it running them.

You will learn:
* How to run your business without downloading any software
* Use freely available web-based tools to incorporate, get a domain, manage customers and timesheets, create documents and much more
* How these tips are currently being used by a software company to run its business operations

And that's just the beginning. With 33 tips to run a lean startup, you don't have a reason to waste a day in getting your business going now.

Each tip is one to two pages using a patterns-based approach of identifying the problem, providing a solution along with action steps and providers you can use in the solution.

These tips are used by the author's company, Stelligent, and other startups that are running exclusively in the Cloud. If you want practical tips and tools on what the author is using to run his $1MM+ firm right now, this is for you. If you want theory and hand waving, you should purchase something else.

The Tips
Tip 1: Company Incorporation
Tip 2: Register Domain
Tip 3: Bank
Tip 4: Email
Tip 5: Calendar
Tip 6: Payroll
Tip 7: Customer Management
Tip 8: Phone
Tip 9: Blog
Tip 10: Social Media
Tip 11: Timesheets
Tip 12: Online Accounting
Tip 13: Password Management
Tip 14: Virtual Address
Tip 15: Legal Documents
Tip 16: Backups
Tip 17: Documents
Tip 18: Scanning
Tip 19: Web Conferencing
Tip 20: Project Management
Tip 21: Wiki
Tip 22: Cloud Computing
Tip 23: Email Marketing
Tip 24: Group Chat
Tip 25: Graphic Designer
Tip 26: Faxing
Tip 27: Payments
Tip 28: Freelancers
Tip 29: Version Control
Tip 30: Web Analytics
Tip 31: Landing Page
Tip 32: Audio Transcription
Tip 33: Website Generator

About the Author
Paul M. Duvall runs Stelligent Systems LLC, a leading expert in Continuous Integration and Delivery, Cloud Migrations and Elastic Operations. Paul is the author of many books and articles including the Jolt-award winning book Continuous Integration: Improving Software Quality and Reducing Risk (http://amzn.to/cibook), the recently published Startup@Cloud: 33 tips for running your company using cloud-based software (http://amzn.to/startupatcloud) and the forthcoming video series DevOps in the Cloud, published by Addison-Wesley in 2012. He is passionate about the cloud and automation and blogs at http://devopscloud.com/.

Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 1335 KB
• Publisher: Virtabrae LLC; 1 edition (April 25, 2011)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B004XQVFL0
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #15,690 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
  • #8 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Business & Investing > Small Business & Entrepreneurship > New Business Enterprises
  • #23 in Books > Business & Investing > Small Business & Entrepreneurship > New Business Enterprises

More About the Author

Paul M. Duvall is the CTO of Stelligent - a leading expert in Continuous Integration and Delivery, Cloud Migrations and Elastic Operations. Paul is the author of many books and articles including the Jolt-award winning book Continuous Integration: Improving Software Quality and Reducing Risk (http://amzn.to/cibook) and the recently published Startup@Cloud: 33 tips for running your company using cloud-based software (http://amzn.to/startupatcloud). He is passionate about the cloud and automation and blogs at http://devopscloud.com/.

Customer Reviews

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent resource, October 4, 2011

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Kurt G. Schumacher "Grey" (Broomfield, CO USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Startup@Cloud: 33 tips for running your company using cloud-based software (Kindle Edition)

This book is a small gold mine. I'm always looking for business services and resources, and "Startup@Cloud" presents a lot of information, organized in a very logical sequence. I've got a long list of sites I want to visit now.

One caveat to books like this is that they can go out of date quickly. For example, this book references Google Wave, which is ancient history (in Internet time). But I recognized a lot of the companies mentioned in the book, and most of them are pretty well established.

Oh, and to the reviewers who are always around to knock this type of book because it's "well known information" and "you can find everything in it on the web" ... okay, you know all this already and you know exactly where to find it. Got it. You're brilliant. [Applause]

But what you don't seem to know is that not everyone knows it all already, and not everyone has the time to search the Internet to find it. I'm running one business and thinking of starting another. If I want to set up a business infrastructure in a few days, I don't want to spend those days flailing around on the web looking for the right blog or website. I want a simple guide that lays it out and points me where I need to go. And this book does exactly that.

So don't review what is clearly an beginner's book and give it a low rating because you're not a beginner.

And all you beginners out there ... buy this book!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Gonna start a biz? Get this book., April 23, 2011

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R. Daly (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Startup@Cloud: 33 tips for running your company using cloud-based software (Kindle Edition)

This book represents the best practices to go from a passion to a successful business using today's readily available technology. Paul has a knack for putting it all together and making it a no-brainer for the rest of us. Whether you are a bright kid with no dough and a half-baked idea, or some big wig at some soul-less monolithic corporation (and want to see what is truly possible), GET THIS BOOK and try it out. You can be up and running overnight. By tip #2 you will have already realized a return on your investment, the remaining 32 are just pure margin.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Just what I was looking for., July 3, 2011

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Lanna W. (Boulder, CO) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Startup@Cloud: 33 tips for running your company using cloud-based software (Kindle Edition)

If you are looking for a single source of Cloud services for you business this is a great resource. It will save you hours of research and trial and error.