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Choosing Technologies for Your Web Startup (Part 2)

crowdSPRING Blog

The shift from “startup scale” to “Facebook scale” can happen quickly, and you want to be sure that you choose the best technology for it. All this spells entirely different software architectures and priorities, requiring different kinds of technological expertise. Let’s call that last one “Facebook scale.”.

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The Rise Of Cloud Computing

YoungUpstarts

Cloud computing has become a buzzword in the recent years, with numerous companies providing the technology to enable organizations to access applications over a network to remote computing sites. With the cloud, users may have significant cost savings as they shift their data and applications to the cloud. Cloud Security Concerns.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

Let me start with the obvious baseline that most people probably know instinctively: Los Angeles is the 3rd largest technology startup ecosystem in the US. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. When you begin to peel back the onion some surprising data presents itself.

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Netflix Redux: Is It Ever OK to Fire Your Customers?

Both Sides of the Table

Each customer segment of your business needs to be analyzed to determine whether they are profitable enough given ongoing costs to serve them relative to the revenue you would receive and the retention money you’d have to money to keep them with your service. A 20% savings for a cost conscious consumer. If they were on the $9.99

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Review: 4 Major Web Hosting Services

The Startup Magazine

The price for this hosting service normally costs $9.95 The real-time performance optimization along with top caching, make this site number one for all WordPress users. a month with Siteground, although avid users pay around $3.95 This major web hosting services company provides regular pricing around $35.00 dollars a month.

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Gust Blog - Thoughts on startups by investors that fund them

Gust

We think it’s a matter of products, but history shows us it takes more than just products and technology to create the sweeping changes. The Cost Equation for a Startup is Better Than Ever. Most plans are pretty good about estimating direct costs but bad about underlying expenses. June 13th, 2012. Invested Interests.

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Server Rooms And The Importance Of Staying Cool

YoungUpstarts

This was once a situation that only a fraction of professionals dealt with, but today the small business has had technology thrust upon them in a short amount of time. From storage hardware to networking gear the small business has a small cache of digital technology upon which its growth and prosperity relies.

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