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FEBRUARY 12, 2019

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. As you can see below the number of seed funds shot up dramatically between 2006 and 2014.

Venture Capital 328

Venture Capital Invest Seed Funding Startup 328

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JUNE 28, 2011

They then launched processing capabilities (EC2) and we startups suddenly didn’t need to buy production servers. They knew the venture math that if only 50 companies / year are sold North of $100 million the entry price for their investments mattered. Every startup I knew in 2005 (when I started my second company) was using this.

Venture Capital 334

Venture Capital Software Capital Startup 334

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

Yes, social networks of 2010 have much better usability, have better developed 3rd-party platforms and many more people are connected. Fox bought MySpace for $580 million and then did a deal with Google worth more than the purchase price to serve up ads. then bought GeoCities for $3.6 They looked unstoppable.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318