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Interview: Thorsten von Eicken of RightScale

InfoChachkie

I thought the analogy was preposterous back in 2006-2007 but it has become obvious. All businesses need to have access to the scale, cost structure, and flexibility that the Amazons, Googles, and Facebooks of the world have built internally. I thought the analogy was preposterous back in 2006-2007 but it has become obvious.

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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Both Sides of the Table

They then launched processing capabilities (EC2) and we startups suddenly didn’t need to buy production servers. Not Google. These funds were active back in 2006 when I was raising money for my second company. Then they launched a simple database, management tools and so on. Amazon will surely keep moving up the stack.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google]. Fox bought MySpace for $580 million and then did a deal with Google worth more than the purchase price to serve up ads. Google acquired YouTube for $1.65 Google turned YouTube into one of the most valuable future Internet properties. The Past (1985-2002).