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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

In recent years, weve also got great new options all up and down the stack, in particular things like Amazon EC2 and RightScale (none of which would be possible without the free software movement). April 27, 2009 8:59 AM Anonymoussaid. July 15, 2009 11:18 PM markmontgomery said. Otherwise it's a great idea.

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Stories of Opportunity from the First Round Capital Key Hire Wire – COO, VP of Business Development, Online Marketing Director

This is going to be BIG.

We are one of the fastest growing game and kid sites in 2009, according to comScore. Our team dabbles in everything from S3 and EC2 cloud services to SIMD and assembly code. We are also one of the stickiest sites on the internet. Each month over 2 million unique visitors come to our site. We have a deep technology stack.

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Work Less, Get More Done, Convenient Open Source, What a Startup.

Software By Rob

Making Open Source Convenient: JumpBox – A startup focused on making it dead-simple to get started with open source applications, they create virtual machines completely pre-configured to just start and go (including versions that runs on Amazon EC2). October 26th, 2009 | Cool News, Links & Reviews Building your startup?

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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Both Sides of the Table

They then launched processing capabilities (EC2) and we startups suddenly didn’t need to buy production servers. Every startup I knew in 2005 (when I started my second company) was using this. Why would we commit hundreds of thousands to EMC before we knew whether we had a big business? Amazon will surely keep moving up the stack.

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How To Bootstrap Your Startup

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Jackie: I would recommend instead Amazons EC2 and S3 platforms. That said, I dont think EC2 is reliable enough to depend upon, and the entire reputation of a startup can hinge on that. Posted by: Jackie | September 10, 2007 12:27 PM @Matt (#20): That makes sense. Having total ownership and intimate knowledge of the spec.

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5 Infrastructure Tips for Startups

blog.adaptiveblue.com

EC2 - The Elastic Compute Cloud Service EC2 is essentially a grid in the box. You then can ask EC2 to start instances with your configuration on the fly. EC2 is a powerful service, but it is still evolving. FAQ Blog About Privacy Policy iPhone App Spread Glue Sites Help Copyright 2006-2009, AdaptiveBlue.com.

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

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In March 2009, they launched a Beta version and demoed it at FinovateStartup 2009.” Plus the tools used by startups to grow quickly (EC2 for example) are much cheaper for linux than for Windows. December 2009. November 2009. October 2009. September 2009. August 2009. April 2009.

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