Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

These two trends had a major impact on the computing industry from 2000-2005 but the effects weren’t yet felt by the VC industry. Platform cloud players like Salesforce.com provide compute resources so that third parties can build applications that integrate with its core product. These are very different.

Venture Capital 334

Venture Capital Software PHP Open Source 334

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. They controlled distribution to the masses. The conventional wisdom at Fox’s headquarters is that MySpace had “made&# both YouTube & Photobucket by allowing them distribution. AOL was closed, the Internet was open. Now I don’t get any.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Internet Technical Review 318

www.kalzumeus.com

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Virtually every production system has security bugs in it. The first reported compromise of a production system was in an industry which hit the trifecta of amateurs-at-the-helm, seedy-industry-by-nature, and under-constant-attack. First startup I worked at was in 2000, I found a compromised system and recommended exactly the above.

Security 101

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2011

I’ve contacted Blazemeter’s CEO Alon Girmonsky , to learn more about the product and the load-testing market. VC Cafe: Like any enterprise business run out of Israel, the challenge is distribution. We will introduce open API so we can easily integrate to complementary products and allow them to integrate with BlazeMeter.

Cloud 106

Cloud North America EC2 106