Speaking in Tech: Smash that Kickstarter piggy bank and MAKE IT RAIN

We chat to Google-style storage startup man about how to, er, crowdfund

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Posted in Small Biz, 20th March 2013 09:34 GMT

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Podcast

It's another recap of the week in tech at El Reg's coolest (and only) podcast. Join your your hosts, Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and - fresh from Austin nerdfest SXSW - Sarah Vela for everything you need to know about the business of tech. This week, the whole gang is together for the first time in over a month. Their very special guest this week is Geoff Barrall, CEO of Connected Data and chairman of Gridstore.

First, some banter

Sarah is back and after SXSW, contemplates branding social media “experts”... literally
Ed is still employed and plans on speaking at CloudConnect
Speaking in Tech announces the first big party for VMworld
StorageBeers in London on 17 April?
Geoff traces his startup pedigree
Connected Data and the “Transporter”
Leveraging Kickstarter to launch a product
Learning from Dropbox
Reliable file sharing, backup and data repository
Lessons from product design, branding and manufacturing
Google-inspired Gridstore
True storage clustering