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How Not To Run Your Own Technology Startup

YoungUpstarts

WordPress – Corporate website, blogging. Amazon EC2 – Computing, server management, hosting. Captricity – We use our own service to capture leads off paper sign-up forms set out at conferences. Marketing and Communications. Mailchimp – Mailing list management, especially for externally-visible lists.

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More Innovation

deal architect

on the New Florence blog Mail Catalogs: Ben Franklin is looking down in awe Rocket Ship Radio Innovations Outdoor Advertising evolves and thrives Reexamining scientific truths Amazon EC2 Spot Instances Rex, the Bionic Man The Big Data of Pi. Innovative Business Uses of Technology'

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Frameworks Round 3

TechEmpower

With that breadth we decided to move the project''s results to a stand-alone site separate from this blog. Openresty takes the lead for multiple queries on EC2. A reader has posted this blog entry to Hacker News, and we invite you to comment there. Thanks to those contributions, the number of tests has grown to over 50.

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

Both Sides of the Table

This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. If you came here via a direct link you might want to check out the more detailed full version on my blog, which is here. Suddenly we were all creating blogs on Blogger.com, Typepad & WordPress. But the masses didn’t want to blog.

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How 99Designs.com came to be

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

Even Perez Hilton blogged about Flippa because of its relationship to FaceSmash and Social Network. Consider using Amazon EC2, 99Designs uses it, they get 5.25TB of images uploaded frequently, EC2 helped them scale with customer demand. A notable site is FaceSmash which sold for $30k the week the movie Social Network came out.

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Framework Benchmarks

TechEmpower

About What we do Portfolio People Blog Contact. This is an EC2 test run on a pair of Large instances. We ran each test on EC2 and our i7 hardware. First up is plain JSON serialization on Amazon EC2 large instances. The high-performance Netty platform takes a commanding lead for JSON serialization on EC2.

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Pinterest – a case study in capital efficiency

The Equity Kicker

I just read the following numbers on the High Scalability blog. 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. What is interesting in this case is the power of those enablers.

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