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Why Has Seed Investing Declined? And What Does this Mean for the Future?

Both Sides of the Table

You might like to think that a bunch of savvy venture capitalists saw a market niche for raising smaller funds or perhaps there was a generational shift where disgruntled junior partners spun out of bigger firms to start their own gigs. I launched my first startup in 1999 so I know the economics of launching from first-hand experience.

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Morphlabs Raises $5.5M

socalTECH

El Segundo-based Morphlabs , the latest startup of Winston Damarillo, is announcing today that it has raised $5.5M Damarillo is best known for founding Gluecode, which he sold to IBM in 2005, and has since been starting up firms whose basis is open source software. in a Series B financing round. and AO Capital Partners Ltd.

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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

Both Sides of the Table

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.

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Interview with Neville Spiteri, TheBlu

socalTECH

Neville Spiteri: We are a digital media startup, building a next generation studio that it is focusing on creating entertainment and web media, that scales to tens of hundreds of thousands of people, and potentially millions around the world. How did you decide to start all of this? Neville Spiteri: We're just getting started.

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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

A very interesting topic, especially for those of us involved in developing for start-ups. The basic conclusion was that it was a bit premature if you were talking about a serious, funded start-up. Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. Will it survive as long as you need?

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TenHands HD Video Collaboration I Founders Interview

Tech Zulu Event

where he led the incubated startup to $300m in revenues as the fastest growing Service Provider for Collaboration services to include video, web, and audio. What inspired you to come up with the idea? use Amazon’s EC2 for video/audio switching on commodity servers in a fully-virtualized environment.