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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

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In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 Either it’s a bunch of pictures or screen shots or it’s a bunch of words. If you are outside internet software we are not going to invest. RSS was something that had appeared.” “….I was starting.

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Data is the Next Major Layer of the Cloud & A Major Victory for Startups

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That is excluding a single line of code or paying any salaries. When I started my second company in 2005 we decided to do everything differently. It’s the input screens where we enter data or search requests. No wonder people had to raise $5 million just to get started back then. We raised $16.5 million in our A round.

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