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How Not To Run Your Own Technology Startup

YoungUpstarts

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. Google Analytics – General reporting on web site usage, traffic, origin, etc.

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Frameworks Round 5

TechEmpower

We have posted Round 5 of our ongoing project measuring the performance of web application frameworks and platforms. We''ve included Windows on EC2 results as a separate set of data within the results view but caution that the results should be considered preliminary. The JSON i7 leaderboard has shuffled slightly as a result.

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Web Framework Performance - Startup Founders Need to See These Numbers

SoCal CTO

In Web Framework Benchmarks , there are some very interesting and surprising numbers around the performance of various web frameworks. I was also surprised by the performance improvement on dedicated hardware as compared to EC2 instances of roughly 10x. Startup Founders really need to see these numbers.

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Which AWS Services Are SaaS?

The Startup Magazine

When it comes to cloud computing, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is one of the top providers. Whether you’re looking for a way to reduce your IT costs or free up your team’s time, SaaS is worth considering. For example, EC2 provides scalable compute capacity in the cloud, making it easy to provision and manage virtual servers.

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How 99Designs.com came to be

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

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.

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Framework Benchmarks

TechEmpower

This is an EC2 test run on a pair of Large instances. Among the many factors to consider when choosing a web development framework, raw performance is easy to objectively measure. Application performance can be directly mapped to hosting dollars, and for a start-up company in its infancy, hosting costs can be a pain point.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

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). The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, Expo SF (May.

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