Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

As a result of the IPO window shifting we saw a massive inflow of public-market capital into the latest stages of venture. In this post I set out to explain why the seed market emerged as its own category in the first place and why it’s declined as of late. ( Well, both of those things happened but they were lagging indicators.

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Venture Capital Invest Seed Funding Startup 328

SoCal CTO

JUNE 14, 2008

Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. They also are VERY interesting for background processing tasks that take compute resources or from a storage cloud standpoint. Stamps.com - two back-ends - mainline service vs. marketing site. Large number of Players in Cloud Computing.

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Platform EC2 Java S3 150

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

The TenHands team realized that there were powerful macro technological and social trends emerging that could be leveraged to deliver simple affordable video collaboration for businesses in a way that has never been done before. use Amazon’s EC2 for video/audio switching on commodity servers in a fully-virtualized environment.

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Cloud Computing Software Platform Startup 65

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

For decades the “layering&# of technology has allowed us to develop IT systems and networks in a specialized way that let’s best-of-breed technology solutions to emerge at each layer of the stack and to allow people with different skill sets to specialize in key areas without having to have competence in every technology arena.

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Startup Technical Review S3 Services 343