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

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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. Between 1999–2005 the costs went down by 90% and between 2005–2010 they went down a further 90%.

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MaestroDev Names President

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Manhattan Beach-based MaestroDev , the developer of private cloud computing software, has officially named Doug Dennington as the firm's new President. Damarillo sold Gluecode in 2005 to IBM. Tags: maestrodev private cloud computing software saas executive president. READ MORE>>.

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ELC Technologies Acquired By Pourzanjani, Rahmat

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ELC is the firm behind startups RightScale, RightCart, and RightSignature, and also provides technology consulting and development to other companies. ELC is known for its cloud computing applications development, and Ruby On Rails development. He currently heads up BestCovery.com. READ MORE>>.

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How Kazuhm Is Reconnecting The Enterprise Cloud, With Tim O'Neal

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If you're a large, enterprise company, in recent years, cloud computing has become an increasingly large--and expensive--piece of your information technology (IT) mix. Enterprise cloud budgets are growing astronomically as companies adopt many cloud techniques. How has the startup experience been for you versus Intuit?

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Morphlabs Raises $5.5M

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El Segundo-based Morphlabs , the latest startup of Winston Damarillo, is announcing today that it has raised $5.5M Morphlabs is developing a cloud-based computing appliance which is used to manage and deploy elastic computing clouds. in a Series B financing round. and AO Capital Partners Ltd.

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Morph Labs Takes On Private Clouds

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Los Angeles-based Morph Labs , the latest startup of Gluecode Software founder Winston Damarillo, has launched a new product focused on private cloud management, the firm announced today. Morph said it has launched Morph CloudServer, a set of software tools to manage and provision enterprise cloud computing. READ MORE>>.

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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.