1999 Cost EC2 Founder 
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 12, 2019
The reality is that as a result of two major trends the costs of starting a technology startup went down massively. Between 1999–2005 the costs went down by 90% and between 2005–2010 they went down a further 90%. I launched my first startup in 1999 so I know the economics of launching from first-hand experience.
Sophia Perl of Wisdom
AUGUST 27, 2011
Today, I went to an event in the city of Campbell to hear Matt Mickiewicz, Founder of SitePoint, Flippa, and 99Designs, talk about how he got started. Tips from Matt Mickiewicz: To keep costs low try swapping services for other services. Since this was in other countries, their customer acquisition costs were much cheaper than the US.
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Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 28, 2011
When I built my first company starting in 1999 it cost $2.5 million in team costs to code, launch, manage, market & sell our software. We paid 10% of the normal costs for the software and that money was for software support. A 90% disruption in cost spawns innovation – believe me.
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 9, 2010
When I started my first company in 1999 we spent more than $2 million on technology infrastructure including Sun servers & Solaris operating system, Oracle databases, EMC storage, load balancers, app servers, back-up devices, disk mirrors and on and on. So I still had to outlay $50-80k for hardware costs. Processing.
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