Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

Venture capital is in the process of its own creative destruction with new market entrants and new models of innovation at the precise moment that our industry itself is contracting. million in team costs to code, launch, manage, market & sell our software. Then they launched a simple database, management tools and so on.

Venture Capital 334

Venture Capital Software Capital Startup 334

SoCal CTO

JUNE 14, 2008

Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. Stamps.com - two back-ends - mainline service vs. marketing site. Amazon EC2 - uses it for natural language processing. Would never put a user request to an EC2 instance. PIM based on Java that would be up-to-date on all your devices.

Platform 150

Platform EC2 Java S3 150

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Companies like GeoCities & Tripod built tools that let you publish web pages that could be discoverable by others. It was: up-market, exclusive, urban, elite, aesthetically pleasing, ad-free and users were verified. Third-Party Tools Will Embed Social Features in Websites. This trend of social pervasiveness will continue.

Social Network 297

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Web 297

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

use Amazon’s EC2 for video/audio switching on commodity servers in a fully-virtualized environment. It’s free so all can access – other business tools charge $30 per user/month and more, Skype charges $8 per user/month for group calling. How would it work for a casual consumer?

Cloud Computing 65

Cloud Computing Software Platform Startup 65

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Companies like GeoCities & Tripod built tools that let you publish web pages that could be discoverable by others. Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? It was: up-market, exclusive, urban, elite, aesthetically pleasing, ad-free and users were verified. It was mostly timing. The Present Era.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

I’m just listed who I perceive as the market leaders. At the time we viewed Amazon’s offering, EC2 as too nascent. While Amazon continues to move “up the stack&# and offer some of these services on their own, RightScale continues to innovate by creating better tools for deployment, monitoring and other functions.

Startup 343

Startup Technical Review S3 Services 343