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How Not To Run Your Own Technology Startup

YoungUpstarts

Amazon EC2 – Computing, server management, hosting. Paper Trail – Log acquisition, merging from multiple servers, and analysis. Hockeyapp – For collecting crash reports from mobile devices and distributing apps for some platforms. Backend Support. Amazon S3 – Long term, reliable storage.

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How 99Designs.com came to be

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

Consider using Amazon EC2, 99Designs uses it, they get 5.25TB of images uploaded frequently, EC2 helped them scale with customer demand. Since this was in other countries, their customer acquisition costs were much cheaper than the US. Some vendors go bankrupt.

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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.

Our team dabbles in everything from S3 and EC2 cloud services to SIMD and assembly code. Knewton's Online Marketing Director is the key partner to the VP, Online Marketing and is responsible for helping the team drive customer acquisition and revenue growth through SEM (paid search), SEO, Affiliate Marketing, and Email.

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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). If you’re having trouble installing an open source app, JumpBox is your answer.

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The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 5: Customer Relationship Hypotheses

Steve Blank

Many of the students had heard phrases that fall under Customer Relationships before; “customer acquisition, SEO/SEM, public relations, Social Network, Advertising, Loyalty programs, cross-sell and up-sell” etc., But the big project for the week was testing and analyzing Customer Acquisition Costs. The results were disappointing.

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The cloud landscape described, categorized, and compared

www.theenterprisearchitect.eu

The best-known examples in the market today probably are the  Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)  and  OpenStack Nova. The best-known example of SDN probably is  Nicira , not in the least because of their $1 billion acquisition by VMWare. When people talk about â??cloudâ?? they often refer to server virtualization. It shouldnâ??t

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

Both Sides of the Table

After a few acquisitions they offered many of the services you think about as foundations to social networks today. It did not have the same success as Google’s acquisition and MySpace sold Photobucket 2 years later to a relatively unknown Seattle-based startup called Ontela for a reportedly $60 million.