crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Useful comparison of Amazon vs. Rackspace clouds & why Mixpanel is moving to EC2 – [link]. The 4G forgery – T-Mobile does not have a 4G network – [link]. Lessons Learned From Helping Over 150 Startups With Marketing Part 1 – [link]. Employee Equity: Restricted Stock and RSUs on #mbamondays – [link].

Social Media 92

Social Media Costa Rica Small Business Design 92

Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2011

This week they were testing one of the most confusing sections of a company’s business model – Customer Relationships - the activities used to “Get, Keep and Grow” customers in a physical or virtual (web or mobile) channel. If their team was a web or mobile app they actually had to buy Google or Facebook ads and create demand.).

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Customer Cloud EC2 Channel 247

www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

Jackie: I would recommend instead Amazons EC2 and S3 platforms. That said, I dont think EC2 is reliable enough to depend upon, and the entire reputation of a startup can hinge on that. Posted by: Jackie | September 10, 2007 12:27 PM @Matt (#20): That makes sense. Having total ownership and intimate knowledge of the spec.

Bootstrapping 41

Bootstrapping Offshore Startup EC2 41

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

mobile, locations, layering of services, data management, portability & more]. Social Networking is Becoming Mobile: FourSquare and Skout. The trend that is unfolding before our eyes is that Social Networking is now becoming mobile and that adds new dimensions to how we use social networks. The Past (1985-2002).

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Social Network Networking Internet Technical Review 318

David Teten

JUNE 6, 2011

KUNZLE: Mobile. The back-end systems look the same as before, but aren’t tuned for the needs of mobile. “Everyone is bringing them in nowadays” BROWN: Mobile is a delivery channel for capability. Packaged platforms (Force.com/EC2/Azure) are much more likely to succeed than a pure infrastructure play.

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Fractional CTO CTO CTO Hire Azure 122

www.kalzumeus.com

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Ruby on Rails lacks a CMS with the mindshare of, say, WordPress, which is good, because every unpatched Ruby on Rails CMS delivered to a non-technical company to serve as their website or backend to their mobile application will be compromised. They have already patched most of their main apps, but they missed one.

Security 101

Security Software Review Ruby Startup 101

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

At the time we viewed Amazon’s offering, EC2 as too nascent. I have talked in the past about other layers that are emerging particularly in social networking and mobile applications. How on Earth could I rely on Amazon to guarantee me performance so that I didn’t risk slow response times for my customers? Other Layers.

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Cloud Technical Review Database Semantic 343

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

They write everything from assembly to jQuery, on PCs to mobile phones, doing hard core computer graphics to high level social networking. And if you’re doing Windows Mobile 7 apps (which the stats suggest you aren’t), it’s your only choice. 65% versus about Windows mobile (dot.net?) net implementation.

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Java PHP Software Review Coder 107

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Blogs (web development): Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots – [link] Company blog of thoughtbot covering Ruby on Rails, HTML, CSS, Javascript, databases, and mobile development. Simple editing. Reply Allison , on February 28, 2011 at 10:40 am said: Thanks for including Grasshopper in your list Steve!

Software Review 110

Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics 110

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. We have an iOS SDK as well, for web-web, mobile-mobile, web-mobile video chat and video messaging. Twilio : Need to call/txt get a phone number from your web/mobile application? Mobile Tools: If you are a web developer, you donâ??t

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Software Review Technical Review Startup 53