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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

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Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%.

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

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That is excluding a single line of code or paying any salaries. 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. We raised $16.5

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