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FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Seed investments are down by any measure (funds, deals, dollars) over the past 3 years in deals < $1 million AND in deals between $1–5 million. As you can see below the number of seed funds shot up dramatically between 2006 and 2014. thus the rise of “pre seed” investing). What gives?

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JUNE 28, 2011

I will argue that LPs who invest in VC funds will also need to adjust a bit as well. 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.

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Venture Capital Software Capital Startup 334

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JULY 10, 2012

Back in 2006/07 when I sold my company and then worked at Salesforce.com there were very few options in SF for technology folk to build their careers at big, growing companies. For those that aren’t aware of the broader technology shifts of cloud computing, the trend is described in a post I did about changes in the software industry.

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AUGUST 13, 2010

I first attended SxSW in 2006, and was blown away. The buzz words of SXSW Interactive 2010: cloud computing, social, on-demand, sharing, collaboration, Entrepreneurism / Monetization Cloud Computing, monetization, Startup. . How UX and the Cloud are Transforming Software. Gareth Knight, Technovated.

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