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The Critical Question Facing Web3 Infrastructure Startups

Tom Tunguz

Developers building sophisticated applications employ 10, 20, maybe 30 services. Developers pay for low-latency storage with the same protocol token as they would pay for compute. Perhaps this dynamic drives consolidation in the market, paralleling the web2 infrastructure hypermarts of AWS, GCP, and Azure.

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The 4 Questions Startups Should Ask Themselves about Building with Generative AI

Tom Tunguz

There are 4 questions a startup should ask themselves about building a startup that uses generative AI. There are 4 questions startups should ask themselves about building with generative AI. Layer : application, platform, or infrastructure? Moats : how to develop competitive advantage?

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Signs We've Touched the Bottom

Tom Tunguz

I’m watching public company earnings to identify early trends in the software market to inform startups’ plans for 2023. Yesterday, Microsoft & Google announced earnings. Both Google & Microsoft announced growth rates in GCP & Azure that held steady from one quarter to the next.

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Is My Second Product Failing?

Casey Accidental

In my recent essay about second products , I talked about how the goal of building a second product is not the traditional concept of product/market fit we’ve all been raised on regarding startups. Google on GCP? In some ways, our goal with a second product is easier, and in some ways, much harder. Amazon on Alexa?

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IaaS PaaS SaaS: Mastering The 3 Different Cloud Service Models

How To Buy Saas

Testing and Development: IaaS solutions make it quicker and more cost-effective for companies to set up and scale their testing and development environments. While IaaS provides infrastructural support, PaaS, as its name suggests, provides cloud platform support to customers. Why would you need PaaS?

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Moving ChartMogul to AWS and Kubernetes

Chart Mogul

We researched the market and discovered many tradeoffs and advantages a new provider could bring to the table. Our options were Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud (GCP), and Azure. The number of new services AWS developed around data security covers most of our needs in the container/Kubernetes space. Team expertise.

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PODCAST 78: What this Google Exec Wants You to Know About Success w/ Alison Wagonfeld of Google Cloud

Sales Hacker

If you missed episode 77, check it out here: PODCAST 77: Navigating the Pace and Pressure of Startup w/ Vikas Bhambri. Google’s Marketing Message and stance on competitors. Alison Wagonfeld is the Chief Marketing Officer for Google Cloud. What You’ll Learn. Career paths are rarely linear. Welcome to The Sales Hacker Podcast.

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