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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Both Sides of the Table

They then launched processing capabilities (EC2) and we startups suddenly didn’t need to buy production servers. Not IBM, HP, Accenture, Cisco, Salesforce.com or anybody else. Every startup I knew in 2005 (when I started my second company) was using this. Then they launched a simple database, management tools and so on.