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FEBRUARY 12, 2019

What’s astonishing and few other than those who lived it as startups (I launched my second startup in this era) realize is how profound of an impact that rise of Amazon AWS (S3 & EC2) had on the startup market. The “A Round” of my startup in 1999 was $16.5 million and my A Round in 2005 was only $500,000 (and that’s all I ever raised).

Venture Capital 328

Venture Capital Invest Seed Funding Startup 328

TechEmpower

MARCH 28, 2013

This is an EC2 test run on a pair of Large instances. We ran each test on EC2 and our i7 hardware. First up is plain JSON serialization on Amazon EC2 large instances. The high-performance Netty platform takes a commanding lead for JSON serialization on EC2. Starting again with EC2. JSON serialization test.

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Framework EC2 PHP Java 560

TechEmpower

APRIL 30, 2013

This is an EC2 test run on a pair of Large instances. We ran each test on EC2 and our i7 hardware. First up is plain JSON serialization on Amazon EC2 large instances. The high-performance Netty platform takes a commanding lead for JSON serialization on EC2. Starting again with EC2. JSON serialization test.

Framework 544

Framework EC2 PHP Java 544

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

We were looking for what I call the “6 C’s of Social Networking&# – Communications, connectedness, common experiences, content, commerce & cool experiences (fun!). They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc. They controlled distribution to the masses.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

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DECEMBER 9, 2010

I had been selling large content management systems and storing documents for industrial-scale customers. At the time we viewed Amazon’s offering, EC2 as too nascent. They have built tools to store the data but also to allow 3rd-party developers to rapidly consume or even write data to their tables.

Startup 343

Startup Technical Review S3 Services 343