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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Both Sides of the Table

In this three-part series I will explore the ways that the Venture Capital industry has changed over the past 5 years that I would argue are a direct result of changes in the software industry, not the other way around. million in team costs to code, launch, manage, market & sell our software.

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

Both Sides of the Table

Third-party software companies will start to offer features to websites to actually drive social features. 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.

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

Both Sides of the Table

Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? Third-party software companies will start to offer features to websites to actually drive social features. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2). But let’s be honest – they’re mostly the same old shit as Web 1.0,

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What The Rails Security Issue Means For Your Startup

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Kalzumeus Software. Patrick McKenzie (patio11) blogs on software development, marketing, and general business topics. Mostly, I sell software. Software security does, in general, suck. Software security has a curious system of social norms, where scalp collecting both builds both karma and pseudo-currency.

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CEO Interview with BlazeMeter, Self-Served Load Testing in the Cloud

VC Cafe

While traditional cloud testing vendors target the enterprise market, BlazeMeter plans to revolutionize the load testing market in the same way AWS/EC2 disrupted the virtualization market by introducing a self-service low cost cloud and Heroku pioneered the first Ruby cloud. Blazemeter real time reports and monitoring. Alon: a lot :).

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