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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

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Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%. The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin!

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Data is the Next Major Layer of the Cloud & A Major Victory for Startups

Both Sides of the Table

When I started my second company in 2005 we decided to do everything differently. During my second startup we never considered using cloud computer processing for our real-time processes but we did run some batch processes there. By then the open-source movement had really developed. Processing. Other Layers.

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