SoCal CTO

JUNE 14, 2008

I'm blogging from the CalTech Enterprise Forum. A very interesting topic, especially for those of us involved in developing for start-ups. Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. Level 1 & 2 Burden is still on the developers, you still have infrastructure. It's funny.

Platform 150

Platform EC2 Java S3 150

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. If you came here via a direct link you might want to check out the more detailed full version on my blog, which is here. Suddenly we were all creating blogs on Blogger.com, Typepad & WordPress. But the masses didn’t want to blog.

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Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Web 297

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

I don’t do advertising on my blog, but I thought it was worth mentioning Ryan in particular because he has an alternate model for doing a startup. Current round: $8.1mm in Series C by S3 Ventures (lead), Adams Capital Mgmt, Triangle Peak Partners. Developer of Appsaurus , a mobile app recommendation engine. Hello, Chair.

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Venture Capital Startup Design S3 214

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. Yes, social networks of 2010 have much better usability, have better developed 3rd-party platforms and many more people are connected. Suddenly we were all creating blogs on Blogger.com, Typepad & WordPress. But the masses didn’t want to blog.

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Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318