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How did you become a hardcore back-end developer?

Diego Basch

Fast forward to 1997. I’m doing my masters at Carnegie Mellon, enjoying the most awesome network connection. Are we killing the network? Game-changing technologies become affordable (cloud computing, SSDs, insane amounts of memory). Basic, Pascal, Assembly, C. I download my first mp3, a novelty back then.

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: athenahealth

Seeing Both Sides

The theory is that with the advent of the cloud in the digital age, small businesses can leverage a suite of services from a technology vendor to manage all aspects of their work – from payments to record-keeping to marketing to customer communications. The company was originally founded in 1997 by Jonathan Bush (1st cousin of George W.)

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Amazon Web Services as Metaphor

aweissman.com

Amazon Web Services are defined as "a set of services that together form a reliable, scalable, and inexpensive computing platform in the cloud.” For someone like me who grew up in the Internet of 1997, to watch this was nothing short of revelatory. This definition belies just how profound those sets of services actually are.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%. The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years. The number of startups being created has increased by an order of magnitude.

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The Communication Secrets Of The World’s Greatest Salesman

Duct Tape Marketing

John Jantsch (00:00): This episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is brought to you by Content Is Profit hosted by Louis and Fonzi Kame, brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network. As Amazon grew bigger and much more complex, you're talking about adding artificial intelligence and cloud computing. 21:46): Yeah. powered by.

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Monday night: HBS Angels of NY Investor Meeting and Company Presentations

David Teten

" Since 1997, Corporate University Xchange (CorpU) has armed senior executives with cutting edge talent improvement research and benchmarking. IvyDate is a premier introduction network exclusive to extraordinary men and women who value intellectual curiosity, love of learning, drive and determination. Click here to buy tickets.

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Design for Startups: The Aesthetics of Web Apps in 6 Questions

www.readwriteweb.com

For example, MySpace might have been the best social networking site around for connecting with friends, but the overbearing profiles and flashing backgrounds pushed me away. There are other social networks that look more aesthetically pleasing. To design like a teenager in 1997 using MS publisher is incredibly painful.

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