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JUNE 28, 2011

We had to buy Oracle database licenses, UNIX servers, a Sun Solaris operating system, web servers, load balancers, EMC storage, disk mirrors for redundancy and had to commit to a year-long hosting agreement at places such as Exodus. Open-Source Software & Horizontal Computing. The Emergence of “Open Cloud&# Infrastructure.

Venture Capital 334

Venture Capital Software Capital Startup 334

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MAY 23, 2012

Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%. LP contributions to VC firms shrunk from 2000 and by 2005-2008 had stabilized to around $30 billion per year. In fact, the majority of Americans are now carrying computers in their front pockets.

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Capital Technical Review Startup 347

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MAY 22, 2010

This week I was preparing for my weekly This Week in Venture Capital web show and was researching some of the deals that were announced for the week. Aside from attacking yet another market segment all I could think about is, “Why enter the web conferencing market. OK, so that could mean a lot of things. billion).

Screening 266

Screening Screencast Web Yammer 266

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DECEMBER 9, 2010

We put all of this infrastructure in an Exodus web hosting facility and had to pay for rack space, bandwidth and some management services if a disk failed, for example. When I started my second company in 2005 we decided to do everything differently. In case you don’t know Applied Semantics it’s Google AdSense.

Startup 343

Startup Technical Review S3 Services 343