crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Useful comparison of Amazon vs. Rackspace clouds & why Mixpanel is moving to EC2 – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. Technology expected in homes in 10 years – Scientists unveil moving 3D holograms – [link].

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Social Media Costa Rica Small Business Design 92

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. I am heavily indebted to earlier theorists, and highly recommend the books Lean Thinking and Lean Software Development. Of course, many startups are capital efficient and generally frugal. No more, no less.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

We have a deep technology stack. Our team dabbles in everything from S3 and EC2 cloud services to SIMD and assembly code. Tags: First Round Capital Venture Capital & Technology nextNY. Our team includes 12 top-notch engineers from NVidia, Microsoft, Stanford, Berkeley and Cornell.

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San Francisco CTO Hire Developer EC2 92

www.theenterprisearchitect.eu

MARCH 26, 2014

Most people there knew the difference between Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and therefore knew exactly what a PaaS company did, right? Contents: Layer 1: the software-defined datacenter. Software Defined Datacenterâ?? OpenStack, AWS, Heroku, CloudFoundry).

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Cloud Software Review Framework Java 48

eranki.tumblr.com

JULY 13, 2012

Some software just doesn’t even handle non-UTC time properly, so don’t do it! Technologies we used. For those that are curious about what we chose and why, the software we used was: Python for virtually everything; not more than a couple thousand lines of C. S3/EC2 for storing and serving file blocks.

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Software Review Database SQL Security 94

SoCal CTO

JUNE 14, 2008

Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. Finally we get to: Peter Coffee , Director of Platform Research, Salesforce.com His premise is that we should be beyond having to buy servers, software, or any other infrastructure. Amazon EC2 - uses it for natural language processing.

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Internet EC2 Java API 150

Feld Thoughts

MARCH 15, 2010

The idea is that technology products should be so easy to set up and use that the experience is vaguely unsatisfying – you feel like you didn’t do anything. You don’t need an Amazon EC2 or Rackspace account, as with “appliance&# providers.

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Cloud EC2 Open Source Hosting 116

BeyondVC

OCTOBER 27, 2009

we have all seen how consumers have gotten used to using browsers and SAAS-based applications and how successful startups have been able to provide web-based applications that users can pull into the enterprise environment starting at a department level rather than having to go out and sell and push technology into enterprises.

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EC2 Open Source Cloud Angel Investor 99

www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

But it is fraught with risks - and the primary risk you need to guard against is software development failure. Vendor long-list - build a “long-list&# of possible software vendors and NDA them all, but don‚Äôt rely on it (more on this later). Award contract - Negotiate a software development contract.

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Bootstrapping Offshore Startup EC2 41

crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Five years ago, a small business launching a new online product would traditionally have purchased their own servers and software, or leased servers, software and hosting services from one of many hosting providers around the world. The cloud has changed the way individuals and organizations of all sizes leverage technology.

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Cloud Small Business Hosting Social Media 105

Feld Thoughts

MARCH 24, 2010

My first company, Feld Technologies, didn’t have contracts. Machines and clouds fail, even on EC2. You’ll always have my cell phone number — if our software breaks, you can call me 24/7 and I’ll get my team on it. If Amazon is up, we’ll get the data. We offer highly discounted backup boxes.

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EC2 Software Review Technical Review Cloud 137

blog.adaptiveblue.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

EC2 - The Elastic Compute Cloud Service EC2 is essentially a grid in the box. It is a service that directly competes with your hosting provider, since it allows you to create and dynamically provision identical instances of your software. You then can ask EC2 to start instances with your configuration on the fly.

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EC2 Widget Software Review Startup 40

techblog.netflix.com

NOVEMBER 26, 2011

We picked a write oriented benchmark using the standard Cassandra "stress" tool that is part of the product, and Denis ran and analyzed the tests on Amazon EC2 instances. The time taken by EC2 to create 288 new instances was about 15 minutes out of our total of 66 minutes. All instances are created using the EC2 auto-scaler feature.

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EC2 Caching Software Review Java 68

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? Pundits are mixed on whether FourSquare represents a major technology trend or a fad but undoubtedly it has captured the zeitgeist of the technology elite at this moment in time. No prizes for guessing … there’s ALWAYS a second act in technology.

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Social Network Networking Internet Technical Review 318

www.kalzumeus.com

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Kalzumeus Software. Patrick McKenzie (patio11) blogs on software development, marketing, and general business topics. Mostly, I sell software. Software security does, in general, suck. Software security has a curious system of social norms, where scalp collecting both builds both karma and pseudo-currency.

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Security Software Review Ruby Startup 101

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Guess which technology we have the least trouble with. You have a CEO that clearly hasn’t taken the time to understand a technology platform. who forms technology biases based on old Visual Basic stereotypes or shallow interpretations of. ability based on one of many technologies. March 25, 2011 at 1:36 pm.

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Java PHP Software Review Coder 107

VC Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2011

While traditional cloud testing vendors target the enterprise market, BlazeMeter plans to revolutionize the load testing market in the same way AWS/EC2 disrupted the virtualization market by introducing a self-service low cost cloud and Heroku pioneered the first Ruby cloud. VC Cafe: Tell me about a technology that excited you recently.

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Cloud North America EC2 106

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

For decades the “layering&# of technology has allowed us to develop IT systems and networks in a specialized way that let’s best-of-breed technology solutions to emerge at each layer of the stack and to allow people with different skill sets to specialize in key areas without having to have competence in every technology arena.

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Cloud Technical Review Database Semantic 343

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

signup, upgrade, trial pricing Zuora – online subscription management FeeFighters – find the cheapest credit card processors HealPay – Collections made easy Customer Support Tender – support, knowledgebase tool for your site GetSatisfaction - conversations between companies / customers.

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Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics 110

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Every startup faces multiple choices and decisions when it comes to technology. Amazon EC2. Ad Serving Technology. free/cheap web customer relationship mgmt software. marketing automation software. email blast and mgmt software. email blast and mgmt software. email blast software. Snapz Pro X.

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Software Review Technical Review Startup 53