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The path to building a successful business is rarely a simple one.

But in the beginning, it seems simple enough: you’ll build an amazing product, market it and watch as people pull out their credit cards. Then you’ll hire people to take over menial tasks and you’ll move into the role of CEO, eventually delegating that as well and living on the beach in Bora Bora, sipping on a martini.

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Wednesday-12 September, Gartner released its latest cloud forecast predicting that the market will grow 17.3 percent in 2019. The fastest-growing segment -- cloud system infrastructure services, or infrastructure as a service (IaaS) -- is forecasted to grow 27.6 percent in 2019.

For hundreds of years, banks have paid us interest in return for holding our money and extracting profits from it. In the process, they became the richest institutions in the world.

Now companies like Google and Facebook have become the world's richest institutions -- by extracting profits from our data rather than our money. But, this time we are getting zero interest in return.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise already helps big companies with cloud computing, data centers and the Internet of Things. Now, for the first time, it will also help businesses use blockchain.

In a strategic analysis, Five Forces Analysis is an excellent method to help you analyze how competitive forces shape an industry in order to adapt or influence the nature of competition. Collectively, the Five Forces determine the attractiveness of an industry, its profit potential, and the ease and attractiveness of mobility from one strategic position to another. Because of this, the analysis is useful when firms are making decisions about entry or exit from an industry as well as to identify major threats and opportunities in an industry.

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