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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Both Sides of the Table

We had to buy Oracle database licenses, UNIX servers, a Sun Solaris operating system, web servers, load balancers, EMC storage, disk mirrors for redundancy and had to commit to a year-long hosting agreement at places such as Exodus. Linux (instead of UNIX), Apache (web server software), MySQL (instead of Oracle) and PHP.

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

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What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# You couldn’t pick up a magazine in the 96-99 timeframe without seeing AOL Keywords advertised everywhere. Social Networking in Web 1.0: The Present Era.

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5 Infrastructure Tips for Startups

blog.adaptiveblue.com

Building large-scale web system was a black-magic exercise, which started with buying hardware and building a farm in your basement. Use Amazon Web Services You are still likely to need the regular hosting provider, but you should be aware of the increasingly important alternative - Amazon Web Services.

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

blog.expensify.com

I was just looking at your web site. I was at a startup AND I developed an evented I/O server with pluggable protocol handlers AND it was capable of handling the c10k problem AND I did this back in 2006 with C# on.NET 2.0 has nothing to do with.NET, it’s just web stuff. March 25, 2011 at 2:51 pm. I’m with Phil.

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