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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. As you can see below the number of seed funds shot up dramatically between 2006 and 2014.

Venture Capital 328

Venture Capital Invest Seed Funding Startup 328

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JUNE 28, 2011

They then launched processing capabilities (EC2) and we startups suddenly didn’t need to buy production servers. These funds were active back in 2006 when I was raising money for my second company. Every startup I knew in 2005 (when I started my second company) was using this. Amazon will surely keep moving up the stack.

Venture Capital 334

Venture Capital Software Capital Startup 334

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

I thought the analogy was preposterous back in 2006-2007 but it has become obvious. In the summer of 2006 over a cup of Peet’s Coffee, you told me about this new thing called “cloud computing” and that you were trying to come up with a creative way to incorporate it into the curriculum of your upcoming UCSB Computer Science class. “By

Cloud Computing 188

Cloud Computing Santa Barbara EC2 Startup 188

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

Since 2006 I have been lamenting what I see as “the Facebook problem&# – they are trying to lump me into one big social network. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2). Either they make our social graph portable or we’ll find other networks to join. Nobody exists in one social network.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318