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Technical Signs Of A Well-Managed Business

YoungUpstarts

Keeping operating systems up to date, adding anti-virus and anti-malware software, and installing additional security measures are equally important. You can run your databases on top of Oracle’s cloud service while keeping the computing parts of your application in AWS EC2. Devices must also be sufficiently protected.

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Developer Focus: Dominic St Pierre, Focus Centric

YoungUpstarts

Originally built by software developer Alexandre Deschamps , Bunker was acquired by Focus Centric – run by French Canadian Dominic St Pierre – who built further functionality into the product. “I did not find anything,” rues St Pierre.

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How Not To Run Your Own Technology Startup

YoungUpstarts

P.S. Three types of external providers are not mentioned because they are well known: open-source software stacks, domain name (DNS) providers, and marketing/social networking sites. Pager Duty – Rotating list of people “on duty: to get alerts on software failures, escalation policies. Your mileage may vary.

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Which AWS Services Are SaaS?

The Startup Magazine

AWS services can be divided into three categories: Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS). This means that businesses don’t have to worry about maintaining or upgrading their software, saving a lot of time and money. AWS Services Can Be Divided Into Three Categories.

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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Both Sides of the Table

In this three-part series I will explore the ways that the Venture Capital industry has changed over the past 5 years that I would argue are a direct result of changes in the software industry, not the other way around. million in team costs to code, launch, manage, market & sell our software.

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Techies? Write Your Own Ticket In Southern California

blog.socaltech.com

My conclusion: if you’re a software engineer, with good technical background and ability, you can pretty much write your own ticket in Southern California. cloud computing (Amazon AWS and EC2, etc.) and even bigger, architecture-level talent (particularly software architects who know how to scale a web based service or software).

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Pinterest – a case study in capital efficiency

The Equity Kicker

As most of you will know, the enablers are cloud computing and open source software. Pinterest now supports 18m users with growth running at 50% per month with the following: Amazon costs are around $39k for S3 and $30k for EC2 (I assume per month). They have 275 EC2 instances. They have 31 employees, up from 12 in December.

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