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How Not To Run Your Own Technology Startup

YoungUpstarts

Salesforce.com – Sales lead and sales pipeline management. Hockeyapp – For collecting crash reports from mobile devices and distributing apps for some platforms. Amazon EC2 – Computing, server management, hosting. Lead Generation and Contact Management. Marketing and Communications. Backend Support.

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How 99Designs.com came to be

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

During lunch at school, he would have sales calls with customers and say that he had a hard stop at 1pm. To this day they have auctioned off $55m worth of websites with 55% of website sales ending above it’s initial sales price. Pick up a book on sales and negotiating. Some vendors go bankrupt.

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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. Amazon EC2 - uses it for natural language processing. Would never put a user request to an EC2 instance. First company built on top of EMC, Unix servers, field sales to large clients. All about end-user requests. Not for batch processing.

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The Googlization of IT

BeyondVC

Today I took a sales team from a portfolio company to meet with a couple of senior IT executives at a major retail company. Phase 3 - Googlization of IT - have as much of your infrastructure as you can run like Google's - distributed, commodity-based, and in the cloud on a private basis.

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What The Rails Security Issue Means For Your Startup

www.kalzumeus.com

Maybe it is a publicly accessible staging server at EC2 spun up by a developer who has since left the company and not shut down because, hey, $20 a month. It’s no shortcut for patching your servers/apps, but I’d also recommend using something like Cloudflare to help protect against distributed attacks. Recent Posts.

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CEO Interview with BlazeMeter, Self-Served Load Testing in the Cloud

VC Cafe

While traditional cloud testing vendors target the enterprise market, BlazeMeter plans to revolutionize the load testing market in the same way AWS/EC2 disrupted the virtualization market by introducing a self-service low cost cloud and Heroku pioneered the first Ruby cloud. We aim to sell through direct internet sales.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Amazon EC2. turn customer feedback into sales and relationships. free, distributed source code control management system. SaaS Sales Team Compensation â?? Startups For Sale. Jing Project. Screenflow Pixelmator. Snapz Pro X. SimpleCDN (commercial). CoralCDN (academic). Amazon CloudFront. Cloud Infrastructure.