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Latest Developments for Valux clients: Start-ups often lack a small yet powerful message to communicate a powerful opportunity. Valux has worked with five start-ups - four in "deep stealth" mode, and one who is in pre-introduction phase, on the "launch pad". Each of these start-ups has powerful new concepts/technologies that address key weaknesses in businesses as varied as:
Sometimes concepts need to be communicated to essential people in the industry, marketplace, and investor community. Valux has broken down the walls by communicating to these communities through a wide variety of means, including:
The net effect of these efforts is to create a receptive environment for the business opportunity. Valux commissioned the article "Services and DataCenter Environments" in DDJ magazine's April 2003 issue, which reaches an audience of web services developers in enterprises, to communicate the novel ability of a stealth client to deliver webservices so reliablity that they could be relied upon to diagnose datacenter problems themselves. The technique lets businessmen see real costs in organizations, but only works if the developers and technology administrators rely on it as the first source of critical information, as further explained in a talk "Issues in Deployment of Wireless Web Services", given for SDForum at the Microsoft Mountain View campus. Valux had the opportunity to have a noted Open Source legend speak at a critical time in the industries view of Open Source as potentially loaded with underlying, unfixable problems. The talk, "Open Software Development in the Real World", was given at to the Internet Developers Group of Silicon Valley, at AOL Campus, USA. The point was that processes remain the same for both open/closed source - open source has no magic cloak that erases legal requirements. By keeping to process, open source remains unassailable, so the decision for a business to use its advantages is unaffected by the "sturm und drang" going on with efforts that falsely believed in such magic cloaks. Valux had a problem with assisting in the sale of a license for a patent use for a novel reliable wireless service. It arranged for demonstration of a extremely narrow yet valuable application of the technology by an implementation firm, to "break the ice", which was successful. Unfortunately, 802.11 was quickly becoming "802 Chapter 11", as wireless was about to down-cycle. A talk was given at the SDForum Emerging Technologies SIG - "TV Quality Reliable Wireless Video Streaming", which pointed the "deep thinkers" of the community at the area. Out in the open, multiple personal meetings resulted in the financial community stepped in to take it to the next level of finance. Reference: |
