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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

Both Sides of the Table

At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2). In April of 2000 there were fears that the AOL / Time Warner merger would create a monopoly on the Internet. Social Networking Will Split Into Layers. One of the most interesting trends in the last few years has been watching the Internet split into layers.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 43: Dakin Sloss and Ajeet Singh

Steve Blank

Prior to Aster, Ajeet worked at Oracle where he was part of the team that first launched Oracle Database to the Amazon EC2 cloud. There are 500 Fortune 500 companies and there are global 2000, and there are another maybe 1 million small and medium businesses in the world. You can scale much better.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 43: Dakin Sloss and Ajeet Singh

Steve Blank

Prior to Aster, Ajeet worked at Oracle where he was part of the team that first launched Oracle Database to the Amazon EC2 cloud. There are 500 Fortune 500 companies and there are global 2000, and there are another maybe 1 million small and medium businesses in the world. You can scale much better.

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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Both Sides of the Table

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. They then launched processing capabilities (EC2) and we startups suddenly didn’t need to buy production servers. The Emergence of “Open Cloud&# Infrastructure.

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The Last Lean Startup Bundle: 48 hours to claim $3,000,000 in prizes

Startup Lessons Learned

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. This blog post is going to be long, and below you will see every last detail of every last tier of prizes.

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The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 5: Customer Relationship Hypotheses

Steve Blank

Their first effort didn’t get much traffic: 6 clicks out of ~2000 impressions. cloud, ec2, Amazon Web Services, etc.). Their results on whether they could acquire with Google Adwords was a bit sobering. Worse yet, each of these clicks cost about a $1.00. They had been bidding on keywords that are too generic (e.g.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2). In April of 2000 there were fears that the AOL / Time Warner merger would create a monopoly on the Internet. Social Networking (like the web) Will Split Into Layers: SimpleGeo, PlaceIQ. I’m going to write a whole post on BothSid.es