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.

Venture Capital 334

Venture Capital Software PHP Open Source 334

Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2011

Veritas , the team building a low cost, residential wind turbine. But the big project for the week was testing and analyzing Customer Acquisition Costs. The most optimistic estimates showed that the residential wind turbine market was less than $20m in year 5 and the costs to acquire the customers made this a money-losing business.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

I chose Amazon Web Services to be our marquee reward, and not just for the obvious reason that so many of you are - right this very moment – already hosting on AWS EC2. And we’ve even got a spot in the extremely exclusive (and extremely cool) Lean User Experience Residency (LUXr) program, which normally costs $15,000.

Lean 167

Lean United States Startup SEO 167

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2). This is an awesome trend and will further lower the cost of startup development. In April of 2000 there were fears that the AOL / Time Warner merger would create a monopoly on the Internet. I’m going to write a whole post on BothSid.es

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Internet Technical Review 318

VC Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2011

After BlazeMeter) With BlazeMeter it is very easy, low-cost and still enterprise-grade. added costs). It will cost you about $160. Back in 2000 I followed the traditional VC trail, raised a lot of money to build (with a cofounder) one of the first interactive advertising companies. Alon: a lot :).

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