Sophia Perl of Wisdom

AUGUST 27, 2011

If you are going to forgo salary for 2 years why not do an apprenticeship. Consider using Amazon EC2, 99Designs uses it, they get 5.25TB of images uploaded frequently, EC2 helped them scale with customer demand. This is interesting because I personally wonder why Amazon keeps Mechanical Turk and EC2 under the Amazon brand.

EC2 53

EC2 Social Network Distribution Demand 53

www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

Practically this means that you’ll outsource (most likely off-shore) your design and development, you’ll rent your servers, you won’t have an office and you’ll have no salary. No salaries, at first, but we did a lot ourselves and then did a lot as trade and/or on an advertising basis.

Bootstrapping 41

Bootstrapping Offshore Startup EC2 41

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

That is excluding a single line of code or paying any salaries. At the time we viewed Amazon’s offering, EC2 as too nascent. No wonder people had to raise $5 million just to get started back then. We raised $16.5 million in our A round. Hardware ate just over 10% of the round.

Cloud 343

Cloud Technical Review Database Semantic 343

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Otherwise, for those yet-another-facebook-type social web apps, just hire competent programmers and give them salary and perks that normal professionals expect, and not hope that their compulsion covers for your managerial incompetence and angel investor micromanaging idiocy. Secondly, my opinion.

Java 107

Java PHP Software Review Coder 107