Notes
1. Joe Weinman, “Time is Money: The Value of ‘On-Demand,’” January 7, 2011. http://joeweinman.com/Resources/Joe_Weinman_Time_Is_Money.pdf.
2. Note: This is a slight oversimplification due to the computational complexity of bin packing.
3. Sunil Mithas, Ali Tafti, Indranil Bardhan, and Jie Mein Goh, “Information Technology and Firm Profitability: Mechanisms and Empirical Evidence,” MIS Quarterly, Vol. 36, No. 1, p. 214.
4. Ibid., p. 215–216; Sunil Mithas, conversation with the author, April 16, 2012.
5. Jay Forrester, “Industrial Dynamics: A Major Breakthrough for Decision Makers,” Harvard Business Review (July–August 1958), pp. 37–66.
6. George Stalk Jr., and Thomas M. Hout, Competing against Time: How Time-Based Competition Is Reshaping Global Markets (Free Press, 2003), p. 64.
7. Brad Barber, Terrance Odean, “Trading Is Hazardous to Your Wealth: The Common Stock Investment Performance of Individual Investors,” Journal of Finance 55 (2000): 773–806.
8. Charles Babcock, “Netflix Finds Home In Amazon EC2,” InformationWeek, March 8, 2011. www.informationweek.com/news/cloud-computing/infrastructure/229300547.
9. Ibid.
10. Sadeka Islam, Kevin Lee, Alan Fekete, and Anna Liu, “How a Consumer Can Measure Elasticity for Cloud Platforms,” University of Sydney, School of Information Technologies Technical Report 680 August 2011.
11. Jason Hsiao, “Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos on Animoto,” April 21, 2008. http://animoto.com/blog/company/amazon-com-ceo-jeff-bezos-on-animoto/.
12. Charles ...
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