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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Both Sides of the Table

These two trends had a major impact on the computing industry from 2000-2005 but the effects weren’t yet felt by the VC industry. They started by offering cloud storage (S3) on a super cheap, pay-as-you consume basis. Every startup I knew in 2005 (when I started my second company) was using this. I find this strange.

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INNOVATION - A Scientist's Perspective

AeA Los Angeles Council

My colleague at National Defense University, Dr. Tim Coffey, head of the Naval Research Laboratory for many years, called these two parts of discovery the "prospecting" and "mining" phases in a 2005 paper ( [link] ), where prospecting is largely the responsibility of the government and mining that of industry. Army, for example.