Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

In this three-part series I will explore the ways that the Venture Capital industry has changed over the past 5 years that I would argue are a direct result of changes in the software industry, not the other way around. So it’s unsurprising that typical “A rounds&# of venture capital were $5-10 million.

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Venture Capital Software Capital Startup 334

socalTECH

JULY 12, 2013

Amazon EC2 would be considered fully managed cloud, which also happens to be off premise. That allows companies to reuse their existing capital, get full control over where their data resides, and where their performance is very deterministic, day in and day you, because you''re not sharing it with any other tenant on the public cloud.

CIO 207

CIO Southern California Technical Review Software Review 207

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

“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. That led us to venture capital as opposed to trying to bootstrap ourselves.

Cloud Computing 188

Cloud Computing Santa Barbara EC2 Startup 188

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

Venture capital. With LaunchPad’s help, more than 61 Orange County companies have raised more than $97 million in startup capital, seed, and series A investments — and much of that money comes from Valley investors betting on their neighbors to the south. Publisher Platform (P3). Editor’s picks. Featured stories.

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Southern California PHP Technical Review Orange County 57