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MAY 22, 2010

This week I was preparing for my weekly This Week in Venture Capital web show and was researching some of the deals that were announced for the week. Aside from attacking yet another market segment all I could think about is, “Why enter the web conferencing market. Isn’t WebEx already dead man walking?

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DECEMBER 22, 2011

I have other areas of interest & competence such as cloud computing and document management given my background. And then they decided they wanted to be the Internet retailer of computing services so they created Amazon Web Services. This generation’s Sears Catalog. All deflationary. Exactly what I’ve outlined.

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DECEMBER 9, 2010

We put all of this infrastructure in an Exodus web hosting facility and had to pay for rack space, bandwidth and some management services if a disk failed, for example. During my second startup we never considered using cloud computer processing for our real-time processes but we did run some batch processes there. Processing.

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