Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

What’s astonishing and few other than those who lived it as startups (I launched my second startup in this era) realize is how profound of an impact that rise of Amazon AWS (S3 & EC2) had on the startup market. I launched my first startup in 1999 so I know the economics of launching from first-hand experience.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

They then launched processing capabilities (EC2) and we startups suddenly didn’t need to buy production servers. They built industrial-scale funds dedicated to backing early-stage startups with $500k rather than $5 million. Every startup I knew in 2005 (when I started my second company) was using this.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

Sun Microsystems has a program called Startup Essentials [link] thats designed specifically to help early stage startups get into some great equipment, free software and other great stuff too. Jackie: I would recommend instead Amazons EC2 and S3 platforms. Having total ownership and intimate knowledge of the spec.

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blog.adaptiveblue.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

EC2 - The Elastic Compute Cloud Service EC2 is essentially a grid in the box. You then can ask EC2 to start instances with your configuration on the fly. EC2 is a powerful service, but it is still evolving. For example, a popular photo sharing service, SmugMug, uses S3 to store the user’s photos.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2011

While traditional cloud testing vendors target the enterprise market, BlazeMeter plans to revolutionize the load testing market in the same way AWS/EC2 disrupted the virtualization market by introducing a self-service low cost cloud and Heroku pioneered the first Ruby cloud. Blazemeter real time reports and monitoring. Alon: Well. the usual.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. Amazon EC2. NESTA : They invest in early-stage companies, inform and shape policy, and deliver practical programs that inspire others to solve the big challenges of the future. Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013).

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