Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

What’s astonishing and few other than those who lived it as startups (I launched my second startup in this era) realize is how profound of an impact that rise of Amazon AWS (S3 & EC2) had on the startup market. The “A Round” of my startup in 1999 was $16.5 million and my A Round in 2005 was only $500,000 (and that’s all I ever raised).

Venture Capital 328

Venture Capital Invest Seed Funding Startup 328

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

WEMO Media is an interesting combination of Hollywood, computer games, and deep technical experience, one of the few companies we have seen which seems to combine both the worlds of high tech and software with content, interactive, and Hollywood. It is the accessibility of cloud computing which has enabled you to create this?

Cloud Computing 208

Cloud Computing Web Entertainment Media 208

SoCal CTO

JUNE 14, 2008

Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. They also are VERY interesting for background processing tasks that take compute resources or from a storage cloud standpoint. Amazon EC2 - uses it for natural language processing. Would never put a user request to an EC2 instance.

Platform 150

Platform EC2 Java S3 150

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

I had been selling large content management systems and storing documents for industrial-scale customers. During my second startup we never considered using cloud computer processing for our real-time processes but we did run some batch processes there. At the time we viewed Amazon’s offering, EC2 as too nascent.

Startup 343

Startup Technical Review S3 Services 343