YoungUpstarts
SEPTEMBER 18, 2012
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. YouTube / Vimeo – Demos of our software or website. Your mileage may vary. Backend Support.
The Startup Magazine
MAY 4, 2022
AWS services can be divided into three categories: Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS). This means that businesses don’t have to worry about maintaining or upgrading their software, saving a lot of time and money. AWS Services Can Be Divided Into Three Categories.
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Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 28, 2011
In this three-part series I will explore the ways that the Venture Capital industry has changed over the past 5 years that I would argue are a direct result of changes in the software industry, not the other way around. When I built my first company starting in 1999 it cost $2.5 Open-Source Software & Horizontal Computing.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 15, 2008
But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. I am heavily indebted to earlier theorists, and highly recommend the books Lean Thinking and Lean Software Development. Of course, many startups are capital efficient and generally frugal. No more, no less.
The Equity Kicker
MAY 22, 2012
As most of you will know, the enablers are cloud computing and open source software. 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.
BeyondVC
SEPTEMBER 5, 2007
Hence, a new approach was needed (our database software running on commodity clusters) which would allow companies to load and query terabytes of data at 10-100x performance and scale over traditional vendors. Think about Amazon’s S3 and EC2 which I have written about before as utility storage and processing for the masses.
eranki.tumblr.com
JULY 13, 2012
Most out-of-the-box monitoring solutions aren’t meant to handle this sort of load, and we wanted a one-line way of adding stats so that we didn’t have to think about whether it costed anything, or fuss around with configuration files just to add a stat (decreasing the friction of testing and monitoring is a big priority).
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