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Dude, Akanda Is Tying The Cloud Together Like A Rug

InfoChachkie

The dawn of personal computers by home hobbyists created the perfect environment for software sharing, yet it was young Bill Gates who convinced that nascent market that software development costs money and needed to be purchased, just like hardware. The earliest mega-scale web services (e.g., Six Reasons Why The Time Is Now.

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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Both Sides of the Table

Open-Source Software & Horizontal Computing. It was driven by the introduction of open-source software, most notably what was called the LAMP stack. 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. I find this strange. And maddening.