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Why Has Seed Investing Declined? And What Does this Mean for the Future?

Both Sides of the Table

The reality is that as a result of two major trends the costs of starting a technology startup went down massively. Between 1999–2005 the costs went down by 90% and between 2005–2010 they went down a further 90%. So What Impact Did the Drop in Tech Founding Costs Have on VC? The “A Round” of my startup in 1999 was $16.5

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How Not To Run Your Own Technology Startup

YoungUpstarts

The world has changed a lot lately and just about every aspect of a technology company – and especially a web-based company – can be “moved out” to a web-based application provider at a lower cost than doing it yourself. Amazon EC2 – Computing, server management, hosting. Backend Support.

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Frameworks Round 5

TechEmpower

We''ve included Windows on EC2 results as a separate set of data within the results view but caution that the results should be considered preliminary. Equipping the i7 workstation with a high-performance SSD has given the database updates test the largest performance gulf between our physical hardware and EC2 m1.large.

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Which AWS Services Are SaaS?

The Startup Magazine

Whether you’re looking for a way to reduce your IT costs or free up your team’s time, SaaS is worth considering. The most popular AWS services for SaaS providers are Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon Elastic Beanstalk. Some Popular AWS SaaS Services.

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How 99Designs.com came to be

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

Tips from Matt Mickiewicz: To keep costs low try swapping services for other services. Consider using Amazon EC2, 99Designs uses it, they get 5.25TB of images uploaded frequently, EC2 helped them scale with customer demand. Since this was in other countries, their customer acquisition costs were much cheaper than the US.

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Pinterest – a case study in capital efficiency

The Equity Kicker

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). Traffic costs them $52 an hour during peak times, down to $15 during the night. They have 275 EC2 instances. They have 31 employees, up from 12 in December.

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Frameworks Round 1

TechEmpower

This is an EC2 test run on a pair of Large instances. Application performance can be directly mapped to hosting dollars, and for a start-up company in its infancy, hosting costs can be a pain point. We ran each test on EC2 and our i7 hardware. First up is plain JSON serialization on Amazon EC2 large instances.

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