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How Not To Run Your Own Technology Startup

YoungUpstarts

Mixpanel – Reporting on fine-grain, “in-app” events such as “user clicked on this button” Pingdom – External monitoring of our applications, “Can folks on the Internet see our applications correctly right now?” Amazon EC2 – Computing, server management, hosting. Backend Support.

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

Both Sides of the Table

The Bridge Between Online Services & The Internet. It preceded the WWW but then become the onramp to the Internet for newbies. When Time Warner & AOL merged it was widely feared that this would be a monopoly that would control the Internet. For a nanosecond Rupert Murdoch seemed like the smartest guy on the Internet.

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Which AWS Services Are SaaS?

The Startup Magazine

SaaS applications are delivered over the internet, and the service provider typically manages them. The most popular AWS services for SaaS providers are Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon Elastic Beanstalk. Each service has its unique benefits that can be extremely helpful for SaaS providers.

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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

The topic is: Betting Your Company On An Internet Platform? Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. Amazon EC2 - uses it for natural language processing. Would never put a user request to an EC2 instance. I'm blogging from the CalTech Enterprise Forum. All about end-user requests.

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Do you believe in the Red Shift theory?

BeyondVC

Greenplum has used red shift to characterize the nature of the existing database market where exponential data growth driven by network computing and internet applications have outstripped the capacity of existing mainstream vendors. The first time I heard the term Red Shift was from my portfolio company, Greenplum.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

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). At the application-stack layer, I see LAMP + Danga as the most common combination. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Twitter Link Roundup #60 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Useful comparison of Amazon vs. Rackspace clouds & why Mixpanel is moving to EC2 – [link]. 40 People Who Changed The Internet – [link]. Lessons Learned From Helping Over 150 Startups With Marketing Part 1 – [link]. Employee Equity: Restricted Stock and RSUs on #mbamondays – [link]. SPEC Campaign [link].