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DECEMBER 5, 2010

While you dialed AOL to get on the Internet, the goal of AOL was to keep you locked into their proprietary content and thus earned the classification of “walled garden.&# They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc. Social Chaos Will Create New Business Opportunities.

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JULY 23, 2013

My colleagues that graduated with engineering degrees from UCSD were paid $31,000 – 15% more. I had a friend who joined at the same time with an engineering degree from the same university as me and held jobs in the restaurant sector in college. I struggled to get the group to take me – they only took engineers.

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JUNE 8, 2014

Open source computing, which reduced costs to start a company by 90%. Many things go into a successful startup community: talent & engineers, co-working facilities, angel money, venture capital, attracting outsiders, great educational institutions, support of local corporates & the community. Welcome to the future.

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JUNE 29, 2011

If you don’t want to read that post, the summary is: Open source computing drove computing costs down 90%, which spurred innovation in technology. Open cloud led by Amazon with their AWS services drove total operating costs down by 90%. .&# If they don’t the industry titans around them will eat their lunch.

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DECEMBER 9, 2010

By then the open-source movement had really developed. We were able to use an open source database (Postgres), open source search (Lucene) and a host of other free components including Apache Tomcat, JBoss. When I started my second company in 2005 we decided to do everything differently.

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MAY 7, 2011

Mark: Google had trouble dealing with customers and contracts because they historically were so engineering driven. While that happens sometimes, it was a challenge for Google because it frequently had trouble adapting from an engineering driven culture. What is the best reporting structure for an engineering team.

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