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We hear a lot about the benefits of moving your business to the cloud. It can reduce that big expense on new infrastructure and the ongoing management costs. The cloud can increase the effectiveness of your IT budget. It can add functionality and increase user satisfaction.

Businesses are rapidly moving all or portions of their IT to the cloud, and for a lot of good reasons, but before you do, it is important to remember the following:

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Launching a start-up is no small feat. It requires an exceptional level of dedication, time, and resources to transform a brilliant idea into a thriving business. For thinly-staffed start-ups, this journey can be even more challenging. The lack of a robust internal IT infrastructure and team can be a significant obstacle to product development and market entry. However, with the right IT partner, you can eliminate these distractions and pave the way for a successful product launch. 

Your startup is coming together with 5 colleagues who are consulting with other companies or moonlighting from their current jobs.  You’re making presentations to investors and interviewing candidates for key founding roles.  It’s an exciting time. You’re all thinking about the product and market opportunity, not about the security of the valuable IP being created. Everyone is using different IT tools – personal consumer email, Dropbox, Office 365, Google Docs, etc. As companies get formed, it is not uncommon for this ad-hoc structure to persist for some time.

We were recently contacted by an executive who lost a key team member to a competitor. The immediate concern was whether the employee secretly downloaded critical IP that differentiates their product and should never leave the company. We hear similar scenarios from time to time. It could be a key engineer with access to intellectual property, or a salesperson with access to customer records.