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UnVenture Capitalists: Seek Investors Aligned With Your Interests, Not Their Egos

InfoChachkie

Because of the advancements in cloud computing by companies like RightScale and open source software such as MySQL , the costs to create a scalable web service have decreased by a factor of ten since the year 2000. We also incurred substantial software licensing charges from Sun Microsystems, Microsoft and Oracle.

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UnVenture Capitalists: Seek Investors Aligned With Your Interests, Not Their Egos

InfoChachkie

Because of the advancements in cloud computing by companies like RightScale and open source software such as MySQL , the costs to create a scalable web service have decreased by a factor of ten since the year 2000. We also incurred substantial software licensing charges from Sun Microsystems, Microsoft and Oracle.

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Data is the Next Major Layer of the Cloud & A Major Victory for Startups

Both Sides of the Table

When I started my first company in 1999 we spent more than $2 million on technology infrastructure including Sun servers & Solaris operating system, Oracle databases, EMC storage, load balancers, app servers, back-up devices, disk mirrors and on and on. I’m just listed who I perceive as the market leaders. We raised $16.5

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