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The Changing Venture Landscape

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We have global opportunities from these trends but of course also big challenges. Of course we can’t. I’m over-paying for every check I write into the VC ecosystem and valuations are being pushed up to absurd levels and many of these valuations and companies won’t hold in the long term. Hot, Flat & Crowded.” By definition?—?I’m

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Ten Startup Tips From Amazon Founder, Jeff Bezos

InfoChachkie

Under the heading, “The Book On Bezos,” the callout lists ten actionable and impactful nuggets of startup advice. We don’t give up on things easily. We didn’t give up.”. “ If you’re not stubborn, you’ll give up on experiments too soon. We are stubborn on vision. We are flexible on details….

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Living on the Edge: Amazon, AT&T, Packet Pursue “Cloudlet” Computing

Xconomy

The word “cloud”—as in cloud computing, and cloud storage—has served as a handy shorthand term, but it has always been inherently vague and a little misleading. But cloud gets it right on one score—it suggests distance. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Why You Should Make Your Competitors Your Frenemies

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But many startups take this too far and I would actually encourage a dose of enemy & friend. He has been able to take complicated topics like cloud computing and boil them down into pithy messages like “the end of software&# as depicted in the simple logo to the right. Of course they’re software.

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How the Seed-Stage VC Trend Began, The Downsides of Unicorns & Much More

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It is, of course, a very recent phenomenon. I was out to raise my first seed money in my second startup of $500,000. Neither did Y Combinator, 500 Startups, TechStars, Amplify, Mucker and countless others. And importantly they play an important role in helping to introduce you to the right A-round VC based on your startup type.

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Interview: Thorsten von Eicken of RightScale

InfoChachkie

Does the world really need more servers in more datacenters gobbling up more power to send more tweets and Facebook pages around the world? Or would you like me to sell you a story on how cloud computing is green because these large datacenters are more energy efficient than the same number of computers run in ad-hoc ways?

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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

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I will argue that when the dust settles, although we will have fewer firms, each type well end up more focused on traditional stage segments that cater to the core competencies of that firm. When I built my first company starting in 1999 it cost $2.5 million in infrastructure just to get started and another $2.5 Enter Amazon.