Category: Product

• A few words on – The Cloudera Model

  Mike Olson, the Chief Strategy Officer at Cloudera, eloquently articulated the philosophy behind their business model in this LinkedIn article titled The Cloudera Model. I highly recommend anyone working on open source platforms and building value on top to stop coding, and read this article. Like right now! I would like to highlight one quote from the […]

  deepakalur

  October 3, 2013

  Big Data, Product, Software, Startups, Strategy, Trends

  closed source, cloudera, open source, Startups, strategy

• Balancing Act: Build and Buy Strategy

  In most startups, you begin with a hypothesis of how you are going to address a need, and hope to build a product or a solution that can fulfill that need and build a business out of it. The time to market is one among the many pressures weighing down on your mind. How do […]

  deepakalur

  September 22, 2013

  Architecture, Product, Product Design, Software Development, Strategy

  Architecture, product development, product management, Software Architecture, strategy

• Apple – Why they rule, and iPad2: my first impressions

  I tuned in to the TechCrunch Live Blog today to get the dish on iPad2. I was skeptical about this launch. Rumors were it would be thinner, lighter, would have a camera, and so on. I didn’t care much for any of that, so I kept my expectations low. I already own an iPad and […]

  deepakalur

  March 2, 2011

  Apple, Design, Product