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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 It was driven by the introduction of open-source software, most notably what was called the LAMP stack. That makes both of these amazing companies great channels for startups. They started by offering cloud storage (S3) on a super cheap, pay-as-you consume basis.

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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. VRM - his company - goal is to provide a Level 4 platform. Some other points - LAMP,Net, Java - doesn't make much difference. Interestingly it was same developers in both companies.

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