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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

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They then launched processing capabilities (EC2) and we startups suddenly didn’t need to buy production servers. These funds were active back in 2006 when I was raising money for my second company. Every startup I knew in 2005 (when I started my second company) was using this. Amazon will surely keep moving up the stack.

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

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MySpace was: scantily dressed, teenaged, middle-America, design chaos and on ad steroids. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2). SimpleGeo is designed with the idea that startups can create new mobile products without having to each build their own mapping functionality.