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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Both Sides of the Table

The trend of funding anything from the first $25k to funding $50 million at a billion+ valuation is unlikely to last as the skills and style to be effective at all stages are diverse enough to warrant focus. They then launched processing capabilities (EC2) and we startups suddenly didn’t need to buy production servers.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

As much as I love Linux (and would love to make it my primary OS across all of my development systems), it simply lacks the market share necessary to warrant the investment of my efforts. Plus the tools used by startups to grow quickly (EC2 for example) are much cheaper for linux than for Windows. Secondly, my opinion.

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