Larry Aiken has over 25 years of experience in the high technology industry in the areas of engineering, sales and marketing. His focus has been on marketing in the areas of product marketing, product management and alliance management. He has held positions with leading high tech and consulting companies such as Motorola, Oracle, Sun Microsystems and Booz, Allen & Hamilton. Aiken graduated from Stanford University with a Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering. He also holds a Masters Degree in Computer Engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University and an MBA in Marketing from Stanford University.
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Scaling Your SaaS Business
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| Multi-Tenancy is the Key |
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Larry Aiken
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| Leading SaaS companies continue to drive a disproportionate 30 to 45 percent annual top-line growth as compared to on-premise software companies.
How do they do it? And why does the venture community continue to fund and investors continue to reward these SaaS companies with 5-10x valuations? |
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Entertainment Insurance Gets Set in the Cloud
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| How a husband and wife team built a multmillion-dollar business that leverages Joyent’s cloud to bring new levels of automation to a very challenging insurance industry vertical. |
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Larry Aiken
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| With all the numerous details that go into creating a multimillion-dollar blockbuster, calling the insurance agent to get a policy is often a producer’s have-to-have-it-today, last-minute call. Unfortunately, delivering insurance quotes for entertainment has always been a challenge to automate, meaning most players take at least three days to respond. This created an opportunity for entrepreneurs Andee Abad and Brad Hodges from the Truman Van Dyke Company and New Empire Entertainment Services, Inc. to step in and deliver an upgrade to the insurance industry, bringing new levels of automation and delivering same-day entertainment insurance quotes. They didn’t have the time, money or interest to build their own IT infrastructure. Instead, they choose Joyent’s cloud to play a starring role. |
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