Steve Cook is the Founder and CTO at Slicify, a crowd sourced web infrastructure business based in Hong Kong. They compete with large providers like Amazon by letting anyone with a PC buy and sell cloud compute on their platform.
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Success Quote
- “Have Fun.” – Unknown
Business Failure
- Steve shares a failure and AH-HA moment all in one… moving, powerful, and enthralling!
Small Business Resource
- The Microsoft BizSpark program: Provides technology, support, visibility, and community to promising startups and entrepreneurs at no charge. (Sorry! This link was active when this episode was first published in 2014. This resource is no longer available.)
Best Business Book
- The Startup Owner’s Manual by Steve Blank
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