Sophia Perl of Wisdom

AUGUST 27, 2011

Consider using Amazon EC2, 99Designs uses it, they get 5.25TB of images uploaded frequently, EC2 helped them scale with customer demand. The main difference is that they were able to leverage their distribution channel. He mentioned that an idea is worth nothing and often times fails because lack of distribution channel.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2011

This week they were testing one of the most confusing sections of a company’s business model – Customer Relationships - the activities used to “Get, Keep and Grow” customers in a physical or virtual (web or mobile) channel. But the big project for the week was testing and analyzing Customer Acquisition Costs.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

billion in annual subscription revenues not including advertising or eCommerce). 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. They had mail, IM, groups, answers, etc.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Amazon EC2. great web customer acquisition tutorials. advertising. contextual advertising. Roku Channel Store. Jing Project. Screenflow Pixelmator. Snapz Pro X. SimpleCDN (commercial). CoralCDN (academic). Amazon CloudFront. Cloud Infrastructure. Google App Engine. see the Libcloud -compatible cloud providers.

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