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

Both Sides of the Table

While you dialed AOL to get on the Internet, the goal of AOL was to keep you locked into their proprietary content and thus earned the classification of “walled garden.&# They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc. Social Networking Will 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. We were mostly selling our product to engineers. Selling to an IT person or businessperson in the middle of Chicago is very different from selling to a LinkedIn engineer. 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. We were mostly selling our product to engineers. Selling to an IT person or businessperson in the middle of Chicago is very different from selling to a LinkedIn engineer. You can scale much better.

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

Steve Blank

They were engineers, certainly they could do better than that? Their first effort didn’t get much traffic: 6 clicks out of ~2000 impressions. cloud, ec2, Amazon Web Services, etc.). The Autonomow team started thinking how they could prove that their paper business model was real. If you can’t see the slides above, click here.

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

Both Sides of the Table

They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc. 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.

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What The Rails Security Issue Means For Your Startup

www.kalzumeus.com

Maybe it is a publicly accessible staging server at EC2 spun up by a developer who has since left the company and not shut down because, hey, $20 a month. Maybe it is a 20% project by a junior engineer which he has on the back burner for the moment. Maybe it is the customer support portal at admin.example.com. dawmail333.

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