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Migrate Your Small Business to the Cloud
"Being both an entrepreneur (three startups) and an owner of a small business IT Services Company, this post is very insightful and useful to a small business owner. You're doing your business and yourself a disservice if you're not leveraging "cloud" services in your organization. This article cites as an example a "platform" for web applications. There are other baby steps an organization can take to migrate towards leveraging cloud services. It doesn't need to be an "all or nothing" approach. Here are a few critical tips: 1. Someone in the organization needs to be accountable. You must own the IT institutional know-how. This isn’t fixing it, this in knowing at a high level what the systems are. Cloud resources still need management and configuration. Ensure you delegate someone in your organization to own this. 2. Document. You have to create a culture of documenting your IT. It is inexcusable to lose passwords or rely exclusively on an outside vendor. Moving to the cloud makes this even more critical. 3. Document management. They should be accessible so that the right person has access to the right files, backed up and properly organized within your organization. Migrating to the cloud is a perfect opportunity to develop best practices on how the documents should be organized, who has access and how do you archive. 4. Make sure you have tons of Internet Access. You need to have as much speed as your budget allows and then get some more. Internet access has displaced the backbone of business communication. 5. Data Backup. Make sure you don't confuse online document storage with backup. They really are two different things that have overlap. True document backup is automated and has a significant historical reach for document recovery. Jonathon Fishman Founder/ President Rimot Support, Your Personal IT Department www.rimotsupport.com www.twitter.com/rimotsupport "« previous1 next »
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6 Things Successful Entrepreneurs Always Do
"I guess I would be called a serial entrepreneur as I am a veteran of three start up with Rimot Support (www.rimotsupport.com) being the latest. Perseveres When Others Would Quit and hiring really smart people are the two most critical items mentioned. The media hypes the well funded, California / New York based start ups as they ideal petri dishes of ingenuity and creativity. I have personally had that experience and the reality is, nothing has been harder than starting a company. There are SO many reasons to quite. Money, self-doubt, stress, time, health, etc. In the end, the real entrepreneurs can't quite. It takes a ton of tenacity to make something from nothing. Every day, you have to quite the doubt and stay focused on your task. This can't be done without REALLY smart and dedicated people by your side. Whether that is advisers, staff or your immediate support circle (parents, wife, kids, etc..). You need them all to be successful. In my experience, nothing has been more rewarding that taking an idea and turning it into a real business. One that employs folks, contributes to the community and make a small difference in the world. Jonathon Fishman Founder / President Rimot Support www.rimotsupport.com "