Skyence is about a week away from releasing our closed beta. We're putting final features into the app, building marketing templates, setting up support and doing all of tasks that I mentioned in our last beta post.Side Note: If you're interested in a beta invite, make sure to sign up on our website.It's also the time to start making hard...
As of today, we are less than 30 days from launching our closed beta for Skyence. Like all startups, this is an insanely busy time for everyone involved. The first beta is most likely the first time that the world at large gets to see your product, and first impressions are always important.Like the other startup blog posts, I wanted...
I drink a lot of coffee these days, and not just because I like hanging out at Starbucks. In any given week, I might have 10-12 coffee meetings. I'll meet with anyone that I can, whether I've met them before or this is our first time to talk.Why?When you're a new startup, I firmly believe one of the best uses...
We started working on the ideas that would turn into Skyence in the fall of 2011. At that time, the cloud storage gold rush was in full swing, with new startups literally launching every week, giving away gigabytes of free storage. We loved the value that cloud storage provided, from synchronization to collaboration, but we saw a big problem.
While users were quick to adopt cloud storage, businesses were left scrambling, trying to find solutions that help them keep control of the sudden flow of information from within the business to the cloud. Where it used to be easy to find files and information on a network share, or other internal systems, now there were literally hundreds of locations in the cloud.
Our software helps businesses and their employees better utilize information stored in the cloud by making it easy to find, share, protect and manage. We're passionate about the software we create and we hope it shows.
Tony has 16 years of product management and marketing experience and has helped establish and execute product strategy at 4 different startups. He has a wide range of expertise in systems management, eDiscovery and information lifecycle management as well as building online communities. Tony graduated from Texas A&M University with a degree in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering.
Anthony has been coding since he could type and is happiest when building fast efficient software that scales. He last worked at Demand Media as Director of Software Engineering where he architected and implemented their content creation infrastructure for publishing to Demand Media's vertical properties. Anthony graduated from the University of Texas at San Antonio with a degree in Mathematics and Physics.
Steve loves to build what he designs. A front-end engineer who likes to sketch ideas and then immediately start to piece them together with real pixels using Typography, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. You'll find him hand crafting visual designs and construct them as fully functional single page web applications. He appreciates good design and is constantly trying to mold Skyence technologies into an aesthetically pleasing and functional product.
April is a seasoned financial and operational executive with over 15 years of experience working with publicly and privately held companies. Consistently recognized as a change agent capable of building focused teams, responding to changes in the market, and creating a foundation for high-growth companies to build upon, April is often sought out for providing consulting and advisory services for companies experiencing high growth, be it organically or through M&A. April is currently the CFO of The Dachis Group, located in Austin, Texas.
Ian Groff is VP of Development for Demand Media (NYSE: DMD), where he is responsible for the Austin development team and associated $28M in product revenue. Ian has expertise in building high volume, scalable SaaS applications, utilizing both on premise and cloud technologies.
Skyence is located in Austin, Texas
