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FEBRUARY 12, 2019

As a result of the IPO window shifting we saw a massive inflow of public-market capital into the latest stages of venture. In this post I set out to explain why the seed market emerged as its own category in the first place and why it’s declined as of late. ( The “A Round” of my startup in 1999 was $16.5

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Venture Capital Invest Seed Funding Startup 328

SoCal CTO

JUNE 14, 2008

Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. Stamps.com - two back-ends - mainline service vs. marketing site. Amazon EC2 - uses it for natural language processing. Would never put a user request to an EC2 instance. PIM based on Java that would be up-to-date on all your devices.

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Platform EC2 Java S3 150

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JUNE 28, 2011

Venture capital is in the process of its own creative destruction with new market entrants and new models of innovation at the precise moment that our industry itself is contracting. million in team costs to code, launch, manage, market & sell our software. When I built my first company starting in 1999 it cost $2.5

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Venture Capital Software Capital Startup 334

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

It was: up-market, exclusive, urban, elite, aesthetically pleasing, ad-free and users were verified. We will seeing the growth of social networks around topics of interest like StockTwits for people interested in investing in the stock market. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2).

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Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Web 297

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? It was: up-market, exclusive, urban, elite, aesthetically pleasing, ad-free and users were verified. We are also seeing the growth of social networks around topics of interest like StockTwits for people interested in investing in the stock market.

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Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

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DECEMBER 9, 2010

I’m just listed who I perceive as the market leaders. 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. And then came the debate about storage.

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Startup Technical Review S3 Services 343