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MAY 22, 2010

This week I was preparing for my weekly This Week in Venture Capital web show and was researching some of the deals that were announced for the week. Aside from attacking yet another market segment all I could think about is, “Why enter the web conferencing market. Isn’t WebEx already dead man walking?

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DECEMBER 22, 2011

I have other areas of interest & competence such as cloud computing and document management given my background. Payment ready consumers (Amazon, iTunes, PayPal) and businesses (Google AdWords, Square). And then they decided they wanted to be the Internet retailer of computing services so they created Amazon Web Services.

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DECEMBER 9, 2010

We put all of this infrastructure in an Exodus web hosting facility and had to pay for rack space, bandwidth and some management services if a disk failed, for example. To this day I’m astounded that IBM, Google, Sun, Microsoft and others didn’t offer this service and Amazon did. We raised $16.5 million in our A round.

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