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

Steve Blank

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. cloud, ec2, Amazon Web Services, etc.). The Week 5 Lecture: Channel.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 43: Dakin Sloss and Ajeet Singh

Steve Blank

Prior to Aster, Ajeet worked at Oracle where he was part of the team that first launched Oracle Database to the Amazon EC2 cloud. Tune in Thursday at 1 pm PT, 4 pm ET on Sirius XM Channel 111 to hear these upcoming guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere : Sept. And download any of the past shows here.).

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 43: Dakin Sloss and Ajeet Singh

Steve Blank

Prior to Aster, Ajeet worked at Oracle where he was part of the team that first launched Oracle Database to the Amazon EC2 cloud. Tune in Thursday at 1 pm PT, 4 pm ET on Sirius XM Channel 111 to hear these upcoming guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere : Sept. And download any of the past shows here.).

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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Both Sides of the Table

That makes both of these amazing companies great channels for startups. They then launched processing capabilities (EC2) and we startups suddenly didn’t need to buy production servers. Facebook is a “platform cloud&# provider, too. It seems if anybody wants to move more toward open it will be Salesforce.

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How To Bootstrap Your Startup

www.readwriteweb.com

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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FinTech Innovation Lab Launch Event – June 2, 2011

David Teten

. “Everyone is bringing them in nowadays” BROWN: Mobile is a delivery channel for capability. The trick is delivering business insights over this channel: use social networks to support relationship management. LYONS: How do you grow the customer relationship thru these channels? Corporates don’t.