Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 3, 2010
Founded in January 2010 by Stephen Hood (ex-Delicious head of product), Dave Baggeroer (Stanford’s Institute of Design), and Josh Whiting (ex-senior engineer at Delicious and Craigslist). Current round: $8.1mm in Series C by S3 Ventures (lead), Adams Capital Mgmt, Triangle Peak Partners. Founded in 1999 in Austin, Texas.
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JUNE 14, 2008
Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. Must design your application differently to live on top of the platform. Benefit of a proprietary platform can be finding customers. Compared cost there vs. second company that raised $500K and used S3 and other platforms. Completely agree.
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Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 5, 2010
Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. MySpace was: scantily dressed, teenaged, middle-America, design chaos and on ad steroids. Social Networking in Web 1.0.
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Prior to joining DWA Chris worked at Activision Blizzard for 13 years, during which time he held a number of role including Executive Producer and Lead Game Designer. Custom ad deals and partnerships. Chris currently serves as Head of Global Interactive for DreamWorks Animation. Now all we need is YOU to: Join us!
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 5, 2010
If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. MySpace was: scantily dressed, teenaged, middle-America, design chaos and on ad steroids. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2). They controlled distribution to the masses.
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