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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Both Sides of the Table

These two trends had a major impact on the computing industry from 2000-2005 but the effects weren’t yet felt by the VC industry. The Emergence of “Open Cloud&# Infrastructure. The biggest change in the software industry beyond open-source was “open cloud.&#. Spawning of Micro VCs.

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The Startup Guide To SXSW Panel Picking

Tech Zulu Event

I first attended SxSW in 2006, and was blown away. In 2009 my art blog www.johntunger.com earned $188,138 in gross sales from 205,839 unique visitors. The buzz words of SXSW Interactive 2010: cloud computing, social, on-demand, sharing, collaboration, Entrepreneurism / Monetization Cloud Computing, monetization, Startup. .

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