YoungUpstarts
SEPTEMBER 18, 2012
Pivotal Tracker – Engineering planning, tracking, task assignments (+mobile). Mixpanel – Reporting on fine-grain, “in-app” events such as “user clicked on this button” Pingdom – External monitoring of our applications, “Can folks on the Internet see our applications correctly right now?”
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 5, 2010
The Bridge Between Online Services & The Internet. It preceded the WWW but then become the onramp to the Internet for newbies. When Time Warner & AOL merged it was widely feared that this would be a monopoly that would control the Internet. For a nanosecond Rupert Murdoch seemed like the smartest guy on the Internet.
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SoCal CTO
JUNE 14, 2008
The topic is: Betting Your Company On An Internet Platform? Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. Controls - reverse engineered Quicken file format - sold to Microsoft for import into Microsoft Money. Amazon EC2 - uses it for natural language processing. Visual Basic add-ons.
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). Since that time we've seen a massive change from product engineering to financial engineering.
This is going to be BIG.
FEBRUARY 26, 2010
We are also one of the stickiest sites on the internet. Our team includes 12 top-notch engineers from NVidia, Microsoft, Stanford, Berkeley and Cornell. Our team dabbles in everything from S3 and EC2 cloud services to SIMD and assembly code. We are one of the fastest growing game and kid sites in 2009, according to comScore.
Steve Blank
APRIL 15, 2011
Internet investor Dave McClure coined the acronym &# AARRR ,&# to remember the parts of Customer Relationships on the web.). They were engineers, certainly they could do better than that? cloud, ec2, Amazon Web Services, etc.). but now they were actually trying to implement it. If you can’t see the slides above, click here.
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 5, 2010
The Bridge Between Online Services & The Internet: AOL. It was an online community like CompuServe and eventually started offering people dial-up access to the Internet for a monthly fee. They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc. And then came AOL.
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