Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

The trend of funding anything from the first $25k to funding $50 million at a billion+ valuation is unlikely to last as the skills and style to be effective at all stages are diverse enough to warrant focus. I will argue that LPs who invest in VC funds will also need to adjust a bit as well. These are very different.

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Venture Capital Software Capital Startup 334

socalTECH

JULY 12, 2013

Many companies would love to be able to get the benefits of cloud--easy configurability, low cost, scaling, and more--but, due to various reasons, can''t take advantage of public cloud services like Amazon. The company announced a funding round from Canaan Partners, Storm Ventures, and AME Cloud a couple of weeks ago.

CIO 207

CIO Southern California Technical Review Software Review 207

SoCal CTO

JUNE 14, 2008

The topic is: Betting Your Company On An Internet Platform? The basic conclusion was that it was a bit premature if you were talking about a serious, funded start-up. Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning.

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Platform EC2 Java S3 150

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

“By the way, back then it was just Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud [EC2] and both ‘Elastic’ and ‘Cloud’ were candidate key terms. I taught a somewhat crazy course about writing and deploying a scalable website in Ruby on Rails and deploying it in EC2. The term ‘cloud computing’ only caught on much later.

Cloud Computing 188

Cloud Computing Santa Barbara EC2 Startup 188

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

Orange County alone is home to more than 300 medical device companies with world-renowned leadership in ophthalmic and cardiovascular devices – a far cry from the “silicone” valley that Ms. MYTH 2: Silicon Valley companies will always have the best shot at funding. Editor’s picks. Featured stories. Cloud services.

Southern California 57

Southern California PHP Technical Review Orange County 57

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

use Amazon’s EC2 for video/audio switching on commodity servers in a fully-virtualized environment. Any funding? TenHands experiences the typical challenges of a start-up business to include the desire to change the world overnight with limited resources. Accounts are free so feel free to use at www.tenhands.net.

Cloud Computing 65

Cloud Computing Software Platform Startup 65