Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 12, 2019
Between 1999–2005 the costs went down by 90% and between 2005–2010 they went down a further 90%. What’s astonishing and few other than those who lived it as startups (I launched my second startup in this era) realize is how profound of an impact that rise of Amazon AWS (S3 & EC2) had on the startup market.
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 9, 2010
When I started my second company in 2005 we decided to do everything differently. At the time we viewed Amazon’s offering, EC2 as too nascent. We put all of this infrastructure in an Exodus web hosting facility and had to pay for rack space, bandwidth and some management services if a disk failed, for example.
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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. Every startup I knew in 2005 (when I started my second company) was using this. They then launched processing capabilities (EC2) and we startups suddenly didn’t need to buy production servers.
www.vccafe.com
MARCH 11, 2013
Hundreds of startups featured since 2005, will yours be next? Amazon EC2. VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. Seed Startups. VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. Updated Business tools for Startups. Jing Project.
blog.expensify.com
APRIL 24, 2012
In 2005 our no-longer-startup was bought for $350 Million, making many millionaires of the original employees and investors. Plus the tools used by startups to grow quickly (EC2 for example) are much cheaper for linux than for Windows. Michael Chan. March 27, 2011 at 7:14 pm. We were once a startup. I’d say.NET served us well.
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