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Interview: Thorsten von Eicken of RightScale

InfoChachkie

“By the way, back then it was just Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud [EC2] and both ‘Elastic’ and ‘Cloud’ were candidate key terms. I taught a somewhat crazy course about writing and deploying a scalable website in Ruby on Rails and deploying it in EC2. When you began your teaching career, did you plan on eventually being an entrepreneur?

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

Both Sides of the Table

After a few acquisitions they offered many of the services you think about as foundations to social networks today. It did not have the same success as Google’s acquisition and MySpace sold Photobucket 2 years later to a relatively unknown Seattle-based startup called Ontela for a reportedly $60 million. Enter Facebook.

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5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California

SoCal Delicious

Acquisition. Entrepreneur. Entrepreneurs. Featured stories. Cloud services. Cloud storage. Enterprise. Venture capital. Developers. Infographics. Management. Electric cars. Hybrid cars. Renewable energy.