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Developer Focus: Dominic St Pierre, Focus Centric

YoungUpstarts

The developer – who created his first product, a CMS and eCommerce web app back in 2008 – says that development on his product will never be done. When the proposal module comes online, though, the pricing will be revised – upwards – to reflect the new feature.

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Techies? Write Your Own Ticket In Southern California

blog.socaltech.com

cloud computing (Amazon AWS and EC2, etc.) For bonus points, make sure the back end uses Amazon EC2 and S3. Social games are an extra bonus, but even simple social marketing/ecommerce apps are good too. In particular, be sure to use the latest Web 2.0+ technologies (interactivity UI etc.).

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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Both Sides of the Table

They then launched processing capabilities (EC2) and we startups suddenly didn’t need to buy production servers. That said, Amazon – through AWS – even without strong competition is as wonderful an experience as Amazon the eCommerce retailer feels to you as an online shopper. I find this strange. And maddening.

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The bar is higher

This is going to be BIG.

From a technology perspective, so many parts of the stack have been made easier--from spinning up servers on EC2 and S3, to getting hosted Rails infrastructure on Heroku. If you want to build an eCommerce site, it won't take a developer long to get you up and running on Shopify.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

billion in annual subscription revenues not including advertising or eCommerce). At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2). That might not sound like a lot in a Facebook world but remember that these people were paying an average of about $20 / month to AOL for access alone (i.e.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Amazon EC2. Jing Project. Screenflow Pixelmator. Snapz Pro X. SimpleCDN (commercial). CoralCDN (academic). Amazon CloudFront. Cloud Infrastructure. Google App Engine. see the Libcloud -compatible cloud providers. Flexiscale. Visibility. Elevator Pitches. KillerStartups. Mashable: Spark Of Genius. Due Diligence. Dune Networks. e-commerce.