Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 5, 2010
The Bridge Between Online Services & The Internet. It preceded the WWW but then become the onramp to the Internet for newbies. When Time Warner & AOL merged it was widely feared that this would be a monopoly that would control the Internet. For a nanosecond Rupert Murdoch seemed like the smartest guy on the Internet.
YoungUpstarts
SEPTEMBER 18, 2012
Mixpanel – Reporting on fine-grain, “in-app” events such as “user clicked on this button” Pingdom – External monitoring of our applications, “Can folks on the Internet see our applications correctly right now?” Amazon EC2 – Computing, server management, hosting. Backend Support.
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Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 5, 2010
The Bridge Between Online Services & The Internet: AOL. It was an online community like CompuServe and eventually started offering people dial-up access to the Internet for a monthly fee. AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. AOL was closed, the Internet was open. And then came AOL.
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). At the application-stack layer, I see LAMP + Danga as the most common combination. Take a look and let me know what you think.
BeyondVC
SEPTEMBER 5, 2007
Greenplum has used red shift to characterize the nature of the existing database market where exponential data growth driven by network computing and internet applications have outstripped the capacity of existing mainstream vendors. The first time I heard the term Red Shift was from my portfolio company, Greenplum.
crowdSPRING Blog
NOVEMBER 10, 2010
Useful comparison of Amazon vs. Rackspace clouds & why Mixpanel is moving to EC2 – [link]. 40 People Who Changed The Internet – [link]. Lessons Learned From Helping Over 150 Startups With Marketing Part 1 – [link]. Employee Equity: Restricted Stock and RSUs on #mbamondays – [link]. SPEC Campaign [link].
BeyondVC
SEPTEMBER 5, 2007
Greenplum has used red shift to characterize the nature of the existing database market where exponential data growth driven by network computing and internet applications have outstripped the capacity of existing mainstream vendors. The first time I heard the term Red Shift was from my portfolio company, Greenplum.
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