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Eucalpytus Tackles Enterprise Market

socalTECH

The new Eucalptus software allows enterprise customers to create and manage their own cloud using those hypervisors; the Eucalyptus cloud also supports the Amazon Web Services API, so those companies can run their own, private cloud in-house with existing software built for Amazon EC2. READ MORE>>.

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

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As a result of the IPO window shifting we saw a massive inflow of public-market capital into the latest stages of venture. In this post I set out to explain why the seed market emerged as its own category in the first place and why it’s declined as of late. ( The “A Round” of my startup in 1999 was $16.5

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Web Framework Performance - Startup Founders Need to See These Numbers

SoCal CTO

I've found myself looking mostly at talent and time to market. I was also surprised by the performance improvement on dedicated hardware as compared to EC2 instances of roughly 10x. You may get into the market, but just know that you are going to pay the price when you start to get traction.

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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. Stamps.com - two back-ends - mainline service vs. marketing site. Amazon EC2 - uses it for natural language processing. Would never put a user request to an EC2 instance. PIM based on Java that would be up-to-date on all your devices.

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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

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Venture capital is in the process of its own creative destruction with new market entrants and new models of innovation at the precise moment that our industry itself is contracting. million in team costs to code, launch, manage, market & sell our software. When I built my first company starting in 1999 it cost $2.5

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Interview with Dale Quayle, FileTrek

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We also have a web experience, and we host that on Amazon EC2. Our sales and marketing will be in Los Angeles. Dale Quayle: We raised a $10M round, and most of that money will be used in expanding our sales and marketing efforts. Is this a mobile application, web service, or how does it work?

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

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It was: up-market, exclusive, urban, elite, aesthetically pleasing, ad-free and users were verified. We will seeing the growth of social networks around topics of interest like StockTwits for people interested in investing in the stock market. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2).