Migrating to the Cloud

Fred Wilson wrote a great post about moving from Skype to Google Hangouts. You can read his post here.

What really caught my attention in this post was the following statement:

But my decision last year to leave the world of files and apps and get to the cloud has been incredibly liberating

That statement resonates with me because I find it liberating to run web enabled applications. This is the main reason we developed our web-enabled Spread Analyzer. It was a pain in the ass to upgrade our own internal software on each trader's desktop. So we decided to change our approach. It was liberating. Once we enabled our tool, it became obvious to us that other traders could use it as well and the incremental cost to allow others to use it was minimal. So we opened it up with minimal friction, and it opened up all kinds of avenues for us to explore.

Fred Wilson is a very successful investor and his statement speaks to the paradigm shift currently under way in technology. Big money with big stocks will be made on this shift.

I am paying attention. You? 

Written by Michael Bigger. Follow me on Twitter and StockTwits.