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APRIL 28, 2012

I always tell teams I meet with, “The scarcest resource in your company is management bandwidth. I had some problems with my hosting company. Every team I fund comes across as laser focused on their core mission. My advice? Spend it wisely.” ” Every company is built by a team and every team member matters.

Bandwidth 415

Bandwidth Management Startup Channel 415

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APRIL 3, 2010

Bandwidth and hosting charges were expensive. When I was first starting companies in the late nineties it took $3 million just to get version one of our product out the door. We had to buy expensive Sun servers, Oracle databases, Unix licenses and build complex software.

Venture Capital 265

Venture Capital Term Sheet Early Stage Silicon Valley 265

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DECEMBER 9, 2010

We put all of this infrastructure in an Exodus web hosting facility and had to pay for rack space, bandwidth and some management services if a disk failed, for example. We were able to use an open source database (Postgres), open source search (Lucene) and a host of other free components including Apache Tomcat, JBoss.

Cloud 343

Cloud Technical Review Database Semantic 343