Feld Thoughts

MARCH 24, 2010

I’ve seen every type of agreement you could imagine and at this point have become completely numb to the dance of a buyer and a seller of any type of product or service trying to get to a legal contract. Machines and clouds fail, even on EC2. If Amazon is up, we’ll get the data. We offer highly discounted backup boxes.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

AUGUST 27, 2011

Mickiewicz saw this and decided to build a MVP product within SitePoint. Consider using Amazon EC2, 99Designs uses it, they get 5.25TB of images uploaded frequently, EC2 helped them scale with customer demand. If a product is not part of your core business, consider spinning it off / rebranding it.

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blog.adaptiveblue.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

It is okay to go with a cheaper provider when you are just developing the code, but your production needs to run on a rock solid system. When your production system is not working right, you need help and you need it fast. EC2 - The Elastic Compute Cloud Service EC2 is essentially a grid in the box. Think about this.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The one major thing that Twitter doesn’t seem to have figured out quite yet is that platform thing or at least how to encourage a bunch of 3rd-party developers to build meaningful add-on products. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2). Social Networking Will Split Into Layers.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Useful comparison of Amazon vs. Rackspace clouds & why Mixpanel is moving to EC2 – [link]. Innovative Product Design #3 – [link]. Lessons Learned From Helping Over 150 Startups With Marketing Part 1 – [link]. Employee Equity: Restricted Stock and RSUs on #mbamondays – [link].

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Prior to starting ThoughtSpot, Ajeet was co-founder and Chief Products Officer at Nutanix , an enterprise data storage industry. Ajeet learned the ropes of enterprise startups at Aster Data Systems , where he was Senior Director of Product Management. You may be in the wrong product at first.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Prior to starting ThoughtSpot, Ajeet was co-founder and Chief Products Officer at Nutanix , an enterprise data storage industry. Ajeet learned the ropes of enterprise startups at Aster Data Systems , where he was Senior Director of Product Management. You may be in the wrong product at first.

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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). The application of agile development methodologies which dramatically reduce waste and unlock creativity in product development.

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bijoor.me

MARCH 26, 2014

Virtual Machines : pool resources of many different servers, thereby creating a virtual layer that offers automatic load balancing and higher levels of availability than the underlying hardware can offer Examples : Amazon EC2 , OpenStack Nova , MS Windows Azure , Google Compute Engine , IBM SmartCloud. product design. Tags adventure.

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Work Less, Get More Done: Analytics for Maximizing Productivity – Patrick McKenzie is the embodiment of Micropreneurship; his focus on marketing, metrics and outsourcing is nothing short of impressive. Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. My favorite points: 12.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Our team dabbles in everything from S3 and EC2 cloud services to SIMD and assembly code. Our team includes 12 top-notch engineers from NVidia, Microsoft, Stanford, Berkeley and Cornell. Thousands of our users create interesting content every day. We have a deep technology stack.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

When we talk about cloud computing we have to be careful to differentiate between open cloud (services the are provided solely to for the economic purpose of building a cloud business) and the “platform cloud&# where certain service providers offer cloud services wrapped around their core product. These are very different.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2011

For some of the teams their expectation was if they built the product customers will come. It was making some of the teams question other parts of their business model (did they have the right customer, did they have the right product features to meet customer needs, etc.). cloud, ec2, Amazon Web Services, etc.).

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 15, 2010

The idea is that technology products should be so easy to set up and use that the experience is vaguely unsatisfying – you feel like you didn’t do anything. You don’t need an Amazon EC2 or Rackspace account, as with “appliance&# providers.

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eranki.tumblr.com

JULY 13, 2012

S3/EC2 for storing and serving file blocks. Unlike product, which is harder to reason about, backend engineering is fairly objective (optimize page load time, uptime, etc.) is it worth the engineering or product cost?) Paster/Pylons/Cheetah (web framework — minimal use beyond templating and handling form input).

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Guy Nirpaz

JUNE 12, 2010

Guy Nirpaz Blog Thoughts from my startup journey Cloud load testing As a company which operates in the cloud space, we’re experimenting with building a product development company without any servers. I posted a question on Twitter. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2011

I’ve contacted Blazemeter’s CEO Alon Girmonsky , to learn more about the product and the load-testing market. We will introduce open API so we can easily integrate to complementary products and allow them to integrate with BlazeMeter. Blazemeter real time reports and monitoring. We aim to sell through direct internet sales.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

But each stage needs to be completed, if you are to reasonably expect a quality product. But producing a professional and slick product costs money. We have been bootstrapping our startup for the past 10 months and will be launching both the product and the company at DEMOfall in two weeks. How much will this cost?

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

AgileZen – project management visually see and interact with your work Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development Kanban Pad – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 10, 2011

From a technology perspective, so many parts of the stack have been made easier--from spinning up servers on EC2 and S3, to getting hosted Rails infrastructure on Heroku. Scaling and succeeding is hard, but just to get from napkin to prototype and some users is so much less of a hurdle than it was previously.

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BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

When I asked him how he would do it, he quite simply said Amazon – Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) and Amazon S3 for storage. As a startup, your job is to allocate your scarce resources as efficiently as possible – time and money. The post Utility computing for the web and startups appeared first on BeyondVC.

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www.theenterprisearchitect.eu

MARCH 26, 2014

The best-known examples in the market today probably are the  Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)  and  OpenStack Nova. However, as you may suspect from my previous ramblings about  productivity  and  higher abstraction levels  I would like to explore additional layers. When people talk about â??cloudâ?? Oh, and when weâ??re

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www.kalzumeus.com

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Virtually every production system has security bugs in it. The first reported compromise of a production system was in an industry which hit the trifecta of amateurs-at-the-helm, seedy-industry-by-nature, and under-constant-attack. Ruby on Rails security sucks lolz amirite? Well, no to the nuance. Was anyone actually compromised?

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Amazon EC2. Great for visualizing work of product development. agile product management. agile product management and Scrum tool. agile product management and Scrum tool. Agile project management tool collaborative product life-cycle. Craze Productions. Jing Project. Screenflow Pixelmator. Flexiscale.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The one major thing that Twitter doesn’t seem to have figured out quite yet is that platform thing or at least how to encourage a bunch of 3rd-party developers to build meaningful add-on products. 18 months ago 25% of all pitches to me were ideas for how to build products around Twitter’s API. Now I don’t get any.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Five years ago, a small business launching a new online product would traditionally have purchased their own servers and software, or leased servers, software and hosting services from one of many hosting providers around the world. Cloud computing involves the delivery of computer hardware and software as a service rather than a product.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

In fact, the open source community can learn a lot from Microsoft in terms of backward compatibility and tools for productivity. These development platforms have contributed significantly to the popularity of the products from Apple and Microsoft. Eclipse has been emulating Visual Studio for years now. March 26, 2011 at 3:52 am.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Our chief architect, Ryan Lissack, wanted to store our data in Amazon’s new (at the time) storage product called S3 that enabled us to store all our data in their facility and we’d pay by the MBs uploaded / downloaded. At the time we viewed Amazon’s offering, EC2 as too nascent. I was dead set against it.

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