Idea Realization
Imagine you could go back in time after the first five or ten years of your startup, how much easier would it be? How much better would your product or service be?
Have an idea? We bring it to life. From idea incubation all the way through product development, we work with entrepreneurs and pre-product stage technology startups to give you the best chance of success. We are there with you through each step of the process using our knowledge and experience to create the optimal road map while avoiding costly potholes. We have helped bring dozens of technology products to market across multiple verticals. Let us help you build it to fulfill your dreams!
Where to start? We help guide you hands-on through each of the six stages of Idea Realization:
Over the past fifteen years we have successfully delivered dozens of commercial and consumer cloud-enabled/SaaS products to market using these key concepts. The technologies we commonly use include Java/JEE, PHP, RoR, HTML/JavaScript, iOS, and Andriod. We are fluent in leveraging cloud technologies such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Rackspace Open Cloud, Mongo DB and Hadoop for solving Big Data problems as well as video and image transcoding services such as Encoding.com and Sorenson Media.
These days it takes only a fraction of the millions of dollars of up-front investment required a decade ago to launch your product. Let CloudSpark Solutions help you navigate through the alphabet soup of technologies and services enabling you to focus on building your business customer by customer.
Have an idea? We bring it to life. From idea incubation all the way through product development, we work with entrepreneurs and pre-product stage technology startups to give you the best chance of success. We are there with you through each step of the process using our knowledge and experience to create the optimal road map while avoiding costly potholes. We have helped bring dozens of technology products to market across multiple verticals. Let us help you build it to fulfill your dreams!
Where to start? We help guide you hands-on through each of the six stages of Idea Realization:
- Initial Concept - what am I?
- Establishing Paths to Customers - how do I find paying customers?
- Building a Proof of Concept - am I even technically feasible yet?
- Engineering a Minimal Viable Product - what minimum feature set do I need to validate myself?
- Performing Initial Market Validation - do I have anybody who likes me?
- Product Improvement/Market Validation Cycles - what am I missing for people to pay for me and find value?
Over the past fifteen years we have successfully delivered dozens of commercial and consumer cloud-enabled/SaaS products to market using these key concepts. The technologies we commonly use include Java/JEE, PHP, RoR, HTML/JavaScript, iOS, and Andriod. We are fluent in leveraging cloud technologies such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Rackspace Open Cloud, Mongo DB and Hadoop for solving Big Data problems as well as video and image transcoding services such as Encoding.com and Sorenson Media.
These days it takes only a fraction of the millions of dollars of up-front investment required a decade ago to launch your product. Let CloudSpark Solutions help you navigate through the alphabet soup of technologies and services enabling you to focus on building your business customer by customer.
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Thought Leadership
Companies we work with have great ideas but may not know how to align technology to their business and yield desired results. We work with executives to align and implement technology from the context of the business thus enabling technology to work in harmony with the business...not against it. Think of us as your virtual Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), Architect, Product Owner, or Technology Adviser. Partner with us to grow your business!
We are often assisting and guiding executives through the following thought leadership exercises:
We are often assisting and guiding executives through the following thought leadership exercises:
- Strategic Product Design, Positioning and Roadmap Development
- Proof of Concept Design and Implementation
- Minimum Viable Product Development (Alpha/Beta)
- Market Validation Services
- Technology Evaluation & Selection
- Software Architecture & Design
- User Interface Design
- Systems and Network Architecture & Design
- Outsource Product Development Process Engineering and Vendor Selection
- Budgeting - Including Network Operations, Engineering, and Corporate IT
- Back Office System Design (Finance, Integrated Data Warehouse/Data Marts, etc)
Many small businesses, entrepreneurs, and early-stage technology startups cannot afford or attract successful and industry tested full time Technology or Marketing Executives. We understand that the idea alone does not make or break a company - it is the leadership and execution of the people involved that ultimately make any company successful. By providing just the right amount of thought leadership at key moments during the growth of a business, CloudSpark Solutions is able to provide companies with a competitive advantage while remaining in their budget.
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Project Rescue
Do your developers or project managers say "it will be done tomorrow" every day? Are your timelines and budget spiraling out of control? Are the systems that support your business crashing every day causing severe disruptions to your customers and your ability to make them happy? If you answered yes to any of these questions we can help. We have seen our fair share of failing projects and know how to get them back on-track before the ship starts to sink and your customers or investors make a run for the lifeboats. Let our team of experts lead your team to success!