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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Both Sides of the Table

I will argue that LPs who invest in VC funds will also need to adjust a bit as well. What this meant was that rather than buying really expensive UNIX servers (and multiple machines in order to handle redundancy) we could buy cheap, replaceable servers for compute resources. When I built my first company starting in 1999 it cost $2.5

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Bringing The Benefit Of Managed Cloud To Enterprises, With Metacloud

socalTECH

Amazon EC2 would be considered fully managed cloud, which also happens to be off premise. Enterprise are quite constrained from the resource point of view, and they really don''t have the cycles to understand OpenStack at a deep level. That is on premise, off premise, fully managed, and do-it-yourself. That will remain in-perpetuity.

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5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California

SoCal Delicious

Just this year, Q2 investments in SoCal and New England were virtually the same, with $838 million and $843 million invested respectively, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers MoneyTree Report. Moral of the story is: don’t underestimate the beach bums. We came to play. Top image credit: AZP Worldwide /Shutterstock].