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Pinterest – a case study in capital efficiency

The Equity Kicker

Pinterest now supports 18m users with growth running at 50% per month with the following: Amazon costs are around $39k for S3 and $30k for EC2 (I assume per month). Traffic costs them $52 an hour during peak times, down to $15 during the night. They have 275 EC2 instances. They have 31 employees, up from 12 in December.

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How To Bootstrap Your Startup

www.readwriteweb.com

But when done well it can really help get a company going fast, professionally and without the founders having to give up much (if any) equity - or bankrupting themselves. The founders may believe they are onto such a good idea that they don’t want to give up any equity. How much will this cost?

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FinTech Innovation Lab Launch Event – June 2, 2011

David Teten

BROWN: Cost of managing a data store is negligible. Packaged platforms (Force.com/EC2/Azure) are much more likely to succeed than a pure infrastructure play. y depreciated hydroelectric dams, to lower our electrical costs. Tal Liani, Managing Director, Equities Research-Communications Equipment, Bank of America.

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The Last Lean Startup Bundle: 48 hours to claim $3,000,000 in prizes

Startup Lessons Learned

People who would never bother with an entrepreneur’s blog, who may not even see themselves as entrepreneurs: shopkeepers and policy makers, CFO’s and private equity managers, and even future entrepreneurs. Every package is worth, in some cases, up to SEVENTEEN times the cost of the books! You can get time with me, too.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Amazon EC2. tells you how much adwords cost. hire low-cost international engineering talent. YCombinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents. Founder Equity Issues. Venture Hacks equity section. Legal, Equity, etc. Jing Project. Screenflow Pixelmator. Snapz Pro X. SimpleCDN (commercial). Flexiscale.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

This kind of search normally costs more than $500… Test your name [link] so you don’t end up with a name that is confusingly similar to an existing trademark. It covers both Europe ant the US, it is easy, fast and free. Reply Tatiana Maya , on March 10, 2011 at 9:10 pm said: Hi Steve, Are you aware of [link] ???