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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Both Sides of the Table

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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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. Some other points - LAMP,Net, Java - doesn't make much difference. Compared cost there vs. second company that raised $500K and used S3 and other platforms.

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