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

Both Sides of the Table

Between 1999–2005 the costs went down by 90% and between 2005–2010 they went down a further 90%. 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.

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Interview with Dale Quayle, FileTrek

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Dale's last firm, Integrien, was sold to VMware in 2010. We also have a web experience, and we host that on Amazon EC2. We keep track of all of the people in a project, the components they are working on, and versions of all of those documents that exist, and how they've developed overtime. What is FileTrek?

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

Both Sides of the Table

It launched open API’s and created a platform whereby third-party developers could come build any app they wanted and Facebook didn’t even want (yet) to take any money from them to do so. Twitter seems to have become a bit allergic to third-party developers (or maybe vice-versa). Social Networking Will Split Into Layers.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

Yes, social networks of 2010 have much better usability, have better developed 3rd-party platforms and many more people are connected. It launched open API’s and created a platform whereby third-party developers could come build any app they wanted and Facebook didn’t even want (yet) to take any money from them to do so.

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5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California

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Huge news: Millions of PHP developers can now build mobile apps for iOS and Android — in PHP. Developers. While real estate and tourism continue to be strong economic drivers, there is also a thriving business climate developing life-changing technologies. Skip to secondary content. Newsletters. 11 hrs ago. 20 hrs ago.