YoungUpstarts
SEPTEMBER 18, 2012
The world has changed a lot lately and just about every aspect of a technology company – and especially a web-based company – can be “moved out” to a web-based application provider at a lower cost than doing it yourself. Workflow & Project Management. Lead Generation and Contact Management. Backend Support.
The Startup Magazine
MAY 4, 2022
SaaS applications are delivered over the internet, and the service provider typically manages them. Whether you’re looking for a way to reduce your IT costs or free up your team’s time, SaaS is worth considering. Elastic Beanstalk is a simple way to deploy and manage web applications in the cloud.
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Sophia Perl of Wisdom
AUGUST 27, 2011
Tips from Matt Mickiewicz: To keep costs low try swapping services for other services. 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.
SoCal CTO
MARCH 28, 2013
I was also surprised by the performance improvement on dedicated hardware as compared to EC2 instances of roughly 10x. I'm feeling okay about our choices of frameworks that are slower and will cost more in terms of hosting and managing growth. Several of these are B2B applications with relatively smaller audiences.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 15, 2008
In recent years, weve also got great new options all up and down the stack, in particular things like Amazon EC2 and RightScale (none of which would be possible without the free software movement). Very useful perspective - as a first-time CEO managing a small startup, these ideas are timely and thought-provoking.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 28, 2011
When I built my first company starting in 1999 it cost $2.5 million in team costs to code, launch, manage, market & sell our software. We paid 10% of the normal costs for the software and that money was for software support. A 90% disruption in cost spawns innovation – believe me.
Steve Blank
APRIL 15, 2011
Veritas , the team building a low cost, residential wind turbine. But the big project for the week was testing and analyzing Customer Acquisition Costs. The most optimistic estimates showed that the residential wind turbine market was less than $20m in year 5 and the costs to acquire the customers made this a money-losing business.
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