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. The “A Round” of my startup in 1999 was $16.5 million and my A Round in 2005 was only $500,000 (and that’s all I ever raised).
SoCal CTO
MARCH 28, 2013
Startup Founders really need to see these numbers. I was also surprised by the performance improvement on dedicated hardware as compared to EC2 instances of roughly 10x. Important Implications Well I'm currently working with startup founders on their systems in JRuby, Django, PHP and Java.
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Sophia Perl of Wisdom
AUGUST 27, 2011
Today, I went to an event in the city of Campbell to hear Matt Mickiewicz, Founder of SitePoint, Flippa, and 99Designs, talk about how he got started. Consider using Amazon EC2, 99Designs uses it, they get 5.25TB of images uploaded frequently, EC2 helped them scale with customer demand. Some vendors go bankrupt.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 3, 2016
A startup founder needs to never lose sight of the vision, but be extremely adaptable to pretty much everything else. And realizing your vision as a founder takes equal parts determination and flexibility. And realizing your vision as a founder takes equal parts determination and flexibility. Lots of people have visions.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 3, 2016
A startup founder needs to never lose sight of the vision, but be extremely adaptable to pretty much everything else. And realizing your vision as a founder takes equal parts determination and flexibility. And realizing your vision as a founder takes equal parts determination and flexibility. Lots of people have visions.
crowdSPRING Blog
NOVEMBER 10, 2010
Important insight – Harsh Realities From 500 Startups Founders – [link]. Useful comparison of Amazon vs. Rackspace clouds & why Mixpanel is moving to EC2 – [link]. Mike Samson, Co-Founder of @crowdSPRING on Community Building & NO!SPEC The great RockMelt social disintermediation – [link].
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 15, 2008
In recent years, weve also got great new options all up and down the stack, in particular things like Amazon EC2 and RightScale (none of which would be possible without the free software movement). Mark Montgomery Founder Kyield Initium VC September 12, 2009 4:21 AM Mark Montgomery said. Otherwise it's a great idea.
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