Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Over the past month a colleague ( Chang Xu ) and I sifted through data on the venture capital industry (as we do every year) and made a bunch of calls to VCs and LPs to confirm our hypotheses. As a result of the IPO window shifting we saw a massive inflow of public-market capital into the latest stages of venture. What gives?

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Venture Capital Invest Seed Funding Startup 328

socalTECH

AUGUST 25, 2010

Santa Barbara-based Eucaplytus Systems , the cloud management software firm backed by New Enterprise Associates, Benchmark Capital and BV Capital, said earlier this week that it has linked up with newScale and rPath on a new private cloud platform. The firms said that the solution will be delivered by MomentumSI. READ MORE>>.

EC2 133

EC2 Cloud Computing Santa Barbara Conference 133

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

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Among those involved in TheBlu are Andy Jones (Avatar), Joichi Ito (MIT Media Lab), Scott Yara (EMC/Greenplum), Yair Landau (MK Capital, formerly of Sony Pictures Entertainment), among others. For us, we are currently deployed on the Amazon EC2 cloud, and that essentially allows us to horizontally scale in the way that we need to.

Cloud Computing 208

Cloud Computing Web Entertainment Media 208

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Close shop to try and control monetization and you can only rely on your own internal innovation machine & capital. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2). At the top end is the business logic created by startups and established technology companies. Social Networking is Becoming Mobile.

Social Network 297

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Web 297

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

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Close shop to try and control monetization and you can only rely on your own internal innovation machine & capital. Pundits are mixed on whether FourSquare represents a major technology trend or a fad but undoubtedly it has captured the zeitgeist of the technology elite at this moment in time. Is the game over?

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318