socalTECH
MAY 8, 2013
Cloud storage is a competitive market, with dozens of cloud storage providers hoping to gain a big chunk of the market. Companies like Dropbox, Microsoft, Google, and many others are setting the standard for those cloud services. We''re not using third party services such as Amazon S3, which just adds to your cost.
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. Not Google. They came from a different perspective. Not Microsoft.
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DECEMBER 9, 2010
I’m just listed who I perceive as the market leaders. Our chief architect, Ryan Lissack, wanted to store our data in Amazon’s new (at the time) storage product called S3 that enabled us to store all our data in their facility and we’d pay by the MBs uploaded / downloaded. And then came the debate about storage.
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. Google App Engine - take more than two seconds to process we are going to kill your request. Must be willing to work the way Google expects. Server and client in Java.
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JUNE 3, 2010
Web-based client for user stream data including Twitter (original focus), FaceBook, MySpace, Google Buzz, FourSquare and many others. Competitors: SmashWords , Google Books. Current round: $8.1mm in Series C by S3 Ventures (lead), Adams Capital Mgmt, Triangle Peak Partners. Estimated 15mm downloads to date.
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 5, 2010
ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google]. Google acquired YouTube for $1.65 MySpace vowed not to create anymore big successes off of their backs that Google could then acquire. It was: up-market, exclusive, urban, elite, aesthetically pleasing, ad-free and users were verified. The Past (1985-2002).
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 5, 2010
ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google]. Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? Fox bought MySpace for $580 million and then did a deal with Google worth more than the purchase price to serve up ads. Google acquired YouTube for $1.65 The Past (1985-2002). It was mostly timing.
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