Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Seed investments are down by any measure (funds, deals, dollars) over the past 3 years in deals < $1 million AND in deals between $1–5 million. The reality is that as a result of two major trends the costs of starting a technology startup went down massively. What gives? The “A Round” of my startup in 1999 was $16.5

Venture Capital 328

Venture Capital Invest Seed Funding Startup 328

SoCal CTO

JUNE 14, 2008

The basic conclusion was that it was a bit premature if you were talking about a serious, funded start-up. Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. Amazon EC2 - uses it for natural language processing. Would never put a user request to an EC2 instance. All about end-user requests.

Platform 150

Platform EC2 Java S3 150

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

“By the way, back then it was just Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud [EC2] and both ‘Elastic’ and ‘Cloud’ were candidate key terms. I taught a somewhat crazy course about writing and deploying a scalable website in Ruby on Rails and deploying it in EC2. The term ‘cloud computing’ only caught on much later. Same everywhere.

Cloud Computing 188

Cloud Computing Santa Barbara EC2 Startup 188

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

I assumed that the people of Los Angeles were disingenuous attention whores and didn’t know anything about technology.”. While real estate and tourism continue to be strong economic drivers, there is also a thriving business climate developing life-changing technologies. Editor’s picks. Featured stories. Cloud services.

Southern California 57

Southern California PHP Technical Review Orange County 57

socalTECH

JULY 12, 2013

The company announced a funding round from Canaan Partners, Storm Ventures, and AME Cloud a couple of weeks ago. Amazon EC2 would be considered fully managed cloud, which also happens to be off premise. We spent lots of time with enterprises where technology was not their core product.

CIO 207

CIO Southern California Technical Review Software Review 207

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

The TenHands team realized that there were powerful macro technological and social trends emerging that could be leveraged to deliver simple affordable video collaboration for businesses in a way that has never been done before. use Amazon’s EC2 for video/audio switching on commodity servers in a fully-virtualized environment.

Cloud Computing 65

Cloud Computing Software Platform Startup 65