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        <title>12 Low-Cost Cloud Services to Support Your Start-up</title>
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                      &lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href="http://ninefold.com/blog/startups/12-low-cost-cloud-services-to-support-your-start-up"&gt;12 Low-Cost Cloud Services to Support Your Start-up&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
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                      &lt;em&gt;&lt;span class="sword"&gt;By&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="author vcard"&gt;&lt;span class="fn"&gt;&lt;a href="http://ninefold.com/blog/author/angelo-livanos" title="Posts by Angelo Livanos"&gt;Angelo Livanos&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="sword"&gt;On&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="date time published" title="2013-05-15T00:00:00+10:00"&gt;15/05/2013&lt;/span&gt; &amp;middot; &lt;span class="post-comments"&gt;&lt;a href='/blog/startups/12-low-cost-cloud-services-to-support-your-start-up#disqus_thread'&gt;View comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;
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                      &lt;p&gt;So, you’ve got an idea that is so good, you just can’t leave it a moment longer. The good news is that getting rubber to the road has never been easier. There is now a plethora of free and/or low cost services that will help you to get your business off the ground and then simply and cost-effectively scale with you once you’ve proven that your business model works!&lt;p class="cta"&gt;&lt;a href="http://ninefold.com/blog/startups/12-low-cost-cloud-services-to-support-your-start-up" class="more"&gt;Read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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        <pubDate>2013-05-15</pubDate>
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        <title>Customer Service "Get it right!"</title>
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                      &lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href="http://ninefold.com/blog/customer-service/customer-service-get-it-right"&gt;Customer Service "Get it right!"&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
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                      &lt;em&gt;&lt;span class="sword"&gt;By&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="author vcard"&gt;&lt;span class="fn"&gt;&lt;a href="http://ninefold.com/blog/author/Jeff Black" title="Posts by Jeff Black"&gt;Jeff Black&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="sword"&gt;On&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="date time published" title="2013-05-06T00:00:00+10:00"&gt;06/05/2013&lt;/span&gt; &amp;middot; &lt;span class="post-comments"&gt;&lt;a href='/blog/customer-service/customer-service-get-it-right#disqus_thread'&gt;View comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;
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                      &lt;p&gt;Astute – or perhaps that should be obsessed – Monty Python fans may have noticed the reference in the title of this blog. I apologize now that there are no further references as I do know there’s lots of Monty Python fans amongst us IT types;&lt;p class="cta"&gt;&lt;a href="http://ninefold.com/blog/customer-service/customer-service-get-it-right" class="more"&gt;Read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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        <pubDate>2013-05-06</pubDate>
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        <title>Private SaaS - sure, why not?</title>
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                  <description>&lt;div class="news clearfix noshade"&gt;&lt;div class="thumb-mini"&gt;&lt;a href="http://ninefold.com/blog/system-administration/private-saas-sure-why-not"&gt;&lt;img src="http://ninefold.com/assets/images/author/_thumbs150/julian.jpg" border="0" alt=""/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="story"&gt;
                      &lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href="http://ninefold.com/blog/system-administration/private-saas-sure-why-not"&gt;Private SaaS - sure, why not?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
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                      &lt;em&gt;&lt;span class="sword"&gt;By&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="author vcard"&gt;&lt;span class="fn"&gt;&lt;a href="http://ninefold.com/blog/author/Julian Valbuena" title="Posts by Julian Valbuena"&gt;Julian Valbuena&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="sword"&gt;On&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="date time published" title="2013-04-30T00:00:00+10:00"&gt;30/04/2013&lt;/span&gt; &amp;middot; &lt;span class="post-comments"&gt;&lt;a href='/blog/system-administration/private-saas-sure-why-not#disqus_thread'&gt;View comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;
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                      &lt;p&gt;The conversation was as initially started by Michael Surkan, and I found it interesting because it depicts on what PaaS is or is not, you can probably go an find it on Linkedin if you care enough.&lt;p class="cta"&gt;&lt;a href="http://ninefold.com/blog/system-administration/private-saas-sure-why-not" class="more"&gt;Read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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        <pubDate>2013-04-30</pubDate>
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        <title>Disruption, scale and innovation</title>
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                      &lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href="http://ninefold.com/blog/innovation/disruption-scale-and-innovation"&gt;Disruption, scale and innovation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
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                      &lt;em&gt;&lt;span class="sword"&gt;By&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="author vcard"&gt;&lt;span class="fn"&gt;&lt;a href="http://ninefold.com/blog/author/peter-james" title="Posts by Peter James"&gt;Peter James&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="sword"&gt;On&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="date time published" title="2013-04-18T00:00:00+10:00"&gt;18/04/2013&lt;/span&gt; &amp;middot; &lt;span class="post-comments"&gt;&lt;a href='/blog/innovation/disruption-scale-and-innovation#disqus_thread'&gt;View comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;
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                      &lt;p&gt;Australian companies and businesses all over the world need to embrace change as their traditional models face disruption. New, innovative businesses emerge almost overnight, disintermediate the value chain and scale rapidly.&lt;p class="cta"&gt;&lt;a href="http://ninefold.com/blog/innovation/disruption-scale-and-innovation" class="more"&gt;Read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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        <pubDate>2013-04-18</pubDate>
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        <title>China, Technology and Innovation</title>
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                      &lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href="http://ninefold.com/blog/innovation/china-technology-and-innovation"&gt;China, Technology and Innovation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
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                      &lt;em&gt;&lt;span class="sword"&gt;By&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="author vcard"&gt;&lt;span class="fn"&gt;&lt;a href="http://ninefold.com/blog/author/peter-james" title="Posts by Peter James"&gt;Peter James&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="sword"&gt;On&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="date time published" title="2013-04-01T00:00:00+11:00"&gt;01/04/2013&lt;/span&gt; &amp;middot; &lt;span class="post-comments"&gt;&lt;a href='/blog/innovation/china-technology-and-innovation#disqus_thread'&gt;View comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;
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                      &lt;p&gt;The world of technology is driven by the massive US markets and has been so for many years. Household names such as Google, Facebook and Apple all based in Silicon Valley dominate the tech scene along with a whole raft of smaller businesses listed on NASDAQ. Predictably much of the news surrounding the internet, innovation and new ideas emanates from the US.  At least it does so in our part of the world.&lt;p class="cta"&gt;&lt;a href="http://ninefold.com/blog/innovation/china-technology-and-innovation" class="more"&gt;Read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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        <pubDate>2013-04-01</pubDate>
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