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Why Has Seed Investing Declined? And What Does this Mean for the Future?

Both Sides of the Table

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 skills and networks inherent in making the early bet are consistent with the funds that play in this category.

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Interview: Thorsten von Eicken of RightScale

InfoChachkie

Or would you like me to sell you a story on how cloud computing is green because these large datacenters are more energy efficient than the same number of computers run in ad-hoc ways? Let me answer ‘why computing needs RightScale.’ Computing is going the way of the electric grid. It’s contagious!”. 5) It is 2015.

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Interview with Neville Spiteri, TheBlu

socalTECH

At the time, my background up until then had been in digital media, computer generated movies, and video games. Scott's background was really the Internet, and content distribution networks, and media on the web. It is the accessibility of cloud computing which has enabled you to create this?

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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

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. His picture of all of the different elements you have to deal with infrastructure (network, storage, os, db, etc.),

Platform 150
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Data is the Next Major Layer of the Cloud & A Major Victory for Startups

Both Sides of the Table

I believe that this is a major new area of growth & innovation for the Internet as Cloud Services start to form deeper & richer layers. During my second startup we never considered using cloud computer processing for our real-time processes but we did run some batch processes there. Let me explain. Processing.

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TenHands HD Video Collaboration I Founders Interview

Tech Zulu Event

However, TenHands’ “special sauce” is in its groundbreaking architecture as the 1st to deliver personal (desktop, mobile) video as a virtualized cloud computing solution and the 1st to commercialize WebRTC - the catalyst behind the effort to revolutionize the way we use our browsers to communicate. Future plans?