The journey of a Bay Area startup: Cloud and You

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Same with every startup, we would want some feedback. Please take your time to read about us on Betali.st to get a little glimpse of what we do. Don’t worry, we won’t forget about you! All we want is a little feedback from the people who have been reading about us, following us and sticking around to hear more about us. Below is a mini-survey we have created with SurveyMonkey.

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Cloud & You · 830 Stewart Drive · #110 · Sunnyvale, CA 94085

A lot of change in small amount of time.

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 18:39:48 -0700

Hey Everybody,

Its been a while since we gave an update. Well, alot has happened…again! Lol!

Well it turns out that, you get what you pay for! So our last developer that joined on board, well his life got too busy. GF, new work, love and passion so there was no time really for us. We thus decided to go back to a very old friend of ours. A team actually that also was the starting developing team for AirBnB. James as we call him is a deep and wise man. He is professional and his team works nonstop! Of course as i was saying, you get what you pay for and thus we are paying for it! But the piece of mind is well worth the price.

And this things are coming slowly but surely and we are still massively bootstrapping ourselves which i think is a great thing about us. Our ability to sacrifice and put the money where it matters. At the same time, its also why things are slow for us because we lack funds (heck 2 of the cofounders are unemployed and working full time on the start up) but its also our motivation to not give up and push it until the end.

New platform: PHP and it seems to be working much better. At least we are more familiar with PHP codes.

We also received our check from Cauzoom, the crowd sourcing fund raiser we held. We managed to raised $500!!! Not bad for a small team like us. Alpha is almost done, basic things such as sign in etc… work. But the bread and butter is still in the works.

Hopefully, we can give our readers some good news soon so pray for us!

-Zen Master

Sprints for the next couple of weeks. Week #1 completed! Lean...

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 21:40:25 -0800

Sprints for the next couple of weeks. Week #1 completed! Lean startup? Handle it with agile methodology.

shonuff.

Update

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 18:01:09 -0800

We switched from Java to Ruby on Rails now. Our new team member is Chris Trinh, which is friends with our Rafiki Idea Guy Duy Le lol.

Our launch date for closed beta is on March 1st. Holla atcha boy!

Past month we got a huge hockey puck for our beta sign ups....

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 14:33:28 -0800

Past month we got a huge hockey puck for our beta sign ups. woot.

This is our office. We are usually here 6 days out of the week...

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 01:14:28 -0800

This is our office. We are usually here 6 days out of the week to work. We also sip wine, so if you are thirsty, come on by so we can feed you some Hot Cheetos and some drank lol

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courtenaybird: The Geography of Venture Capital — 1995-2011

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:12:45 -0800

courtenaybird:

The Geography of Venture Capital — 1995-2011

Hello Digital World from Jean-Marc Ly, Co-Founder/CEO of Cloud and You

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:32:33 -0800

Hello Digital World,

Well here’s a first! A blog post from me, the CEO lol. Usually its Truong who writes our blog but today i felt like “voicing out”. Although i’m the CEO, do i really act like one? Not really as well all wear the CEO hat at some point. However, i am good at communication, presentation, speaking out and bridging people together, thus i was picked to be mr. CEO. (our titles dont mean anything to us as we still make fun of each other whenever we can =])

Starting this startup has certainly has been a rough ride with a huge learning curve. We have been making progress this year and all is working as should be. Thats not to say we did not encounter hard challenges along the way.

Building a startup is like building a car as Eric Ries puts it and ours have been long in the making. We had problems with the ignition, the cylinder, spark plugs etc… Each piece of the components, we had to learn from the grounds up or find someone who knew what we needed.

But thats not to say we are already driving and racing around the freeway. Heck the car is still parked at the auto-shop! But little by little we see each piece come together to create a bigger working system and i guess thats what a startup is; an engine of growth.

A couple days ago, we launched a crowsourcing fundraiser using Cauzoom and it’s platform to attract donations from people all over the world. It was the first time, we used such method but as the company and work continues, we find ourselves in the need of funds.

Now it is kinda weird as i’m plastering this link (http://cauzoom.com/project/cloud-and-you Please donate, its for a good cause :] ) all over my facebook, linked in etc… because i haven’t really told to the world that i am starting a startup. I didn’t hide it but i didn’t advertise it either.

So far we have raised $310 from friends and family but the goal is to get $2500 by Feb 19. $2500 seems a bit much but you know the saying “Go big or go home.” Well its at least worth a try and if we don’t reach the goal, the money is returned back to the donor.

So i guess i have to shamelessly ask the audience, please help us out with our goal and thanks for reading. Ill try to write more thoughts to contribute to our blog although Truong has been doing a good job so far.

PS: Happy Chinese New Years to my fellow Chinese and Asian folks who are celebrating this holiday.

Jean-Marc Ly

Zen Master

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Cauz page: Build New Site to Connect Artists and Mentors

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:37:56 -0800

Cauz page: Build New Site to Connect Artists and Mentors

build New Site to Connect Artists and Mentors

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:30:00 -0800

build New Site to Connect Artists and Mentors

Sorting our receipts for our company. Need to invest in a godamn...

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 01:43:42 -0800

Sorting our receipts for our company. Need to invest in a godamn receipt scanner.

Motorcycle sold. Time to sell my helmet too. Goodbye Ben...

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 01:09:14 -0800

Motorcycle sold. Time to sell my helmet too. Goodbye Ben Bostrom.

New office, more productivity

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 10:43:55 -0800

Just want to give a heads up that we are officially moving into our new office in Sunnyvale, CA. Next to Fry’s and that strip joint on Arques hahahaha.

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cosascool: Barcelona-based designer Marc Graells

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cosascool:

Barcelona-based designer Marc Graells