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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Both Sides of the Table

When I built my first company starting in 1999 it cost $2.5 We had to buy Oracle database licenses, UNIX servers, a Sun Solaris operating system, web servers, load balancers, EMC storage, disk mirrors for redundancy and had to commit to a year-long hosting agreement at places such as Exodus. That little online book company.

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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

The topic is: Betting Your Company On An Internet Platform? Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. Most likely, a Level 2 platform's apps also call into the platform via a web services API to draw on data and services. VRM - his company - goal is to provide a Level 4 platform.

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