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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. 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.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Hundreds of startups featured since 2005, will yours be next? Media Temple. Social Media Tracking/Marketing. Amazon EC2. analytics for social media and online. social media and email marketing. VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

Any perusal on Netcraft.com will show the (vast) majority of major Media companies, Internet Services Providers (ISPs), Web hosting companies and Mobile communications firms use UNIX/Linux as core OS and technologies. In 2005 our no-longer-startup was bought for $350 Million, making many millionaires of the original employees and investors.

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