Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 12, 2019
What’s astonishing and few other than those who lived it as startups (I launched my second startup in this era) realize is how profound of an impact that rise of Amazon AWS (S3 & EC2) had on the startup market. The skills and networks inherent in making the early bet are consistent with the funds that play in this category.
SoCal CTO
MARCH 28, 2013
Startup Founders really need to see these numbers. I was also surprised by the performance improvement on dedicated hardware as compared to EC2 instances of roughly 10x. Important Implications Well I'm currently working with startup founders on their systems in JRuby, Django, PHP and Java.
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Sophia Perl of Wisdom
AUGUST 27, 2011
Today, I went to an event in the city of Campbell to hear Matt Mickiewicz, Founder of SitePoint, Flippa, and 99Designs, talk about how he got started. A notable site is FaceSmash which sold for $30k the week the movie Social Network came out. One idea that never took off was NameMyThingey.com where you can crowdsource business names.
crowdSPRING Blog
NOVEMBER 10, 2010
Important insight – Harsh Realities From 500 Startups Founders – [link]. Useful comparison of Amazon vs. Rackspace clouds & why Mixpanel is moving to EC2 – [link]. Mike Samson, Co-Founder of @crowdSPRING on Community Building & NO!SPEC The great RockMelt social disintermediation – [link].
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). For example, one angel investor reportedly invested in several hundred social networking ventures employing this philosophy.
SoCal CTO
JUNE 14, 2008
Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. His picture of all of the different elements you have to deal with infrastructure (network, storage, os, db, etc.), Next up: Joe Andrieu CEO/Founder, SwitchBook Chair, Project VRM Standards Committee Key questions - Will it accomplish what you need?
www.readwriteweb.com
OCTOBER 7, 2007
But when done well it can really help get a company going fast, professionally and without the founders having to give up much (if any) equity - or bankrupting themselves. The founders may believe they are onto such a good idea that they don’t want to give up any equity. Why bootstrap? Either way, bootstrapping is a viable model.
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