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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

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Venture capital is in the process of its own creative destruction with new market entrants and new models of innovation at the precise moment that our industry itself is contracting. 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.

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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

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We spoke about employment contracts for entrepreneurs – We talked about “change of control&# provisions in your contract and how to negotiate them. AdReady – Develops software tools and management platform that assists content publishers and ad agencies with the creation of display ads. Rumored to be appox.

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When Should You Allow Exclusivity in Deals?

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Before weighing in on the subject I would point out one thing that should be obvious to many of you – the iPhone was originally launched in 2007 in an exclusive partnership with AT&T and this was vital to both Apple and AT&T and was a hard negotiation throughout 2005 and 2006. How to Craft Exclusivity Agreements.

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Gene Dolgoff's 3D Vision: Using Crowdfunding To Turn the World 3D

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Gene Dolgoff: After years of research and development, we have developed technology which converts two dimensional video to 3D. It was a series of different technologies we had ot develop and apply for patents on, and now that we have it, we're working on a prototype.

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Interview with Elizabeth Amini, Anti-Aging Games

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They offered me a contract job at the intersection of science and graphics, which is satellite imaging, a dream come true. Elizabeth Amini: I actually ran into him in 2005, when he was a keynote speaker at a conference. Because they were science related, at some point I ended up talking with NASA JPL. I ended up managing that project.

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Factual Data On Popular New Venture Success Timelines

Startup Professionals Musings

Here is some data from Wikipedia: Microsoft – Bill Gates founded Microsoft in 1975, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63

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Vizio and the Story of the Sleeping Giant

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Vizio’s vision was to develop high quality, affordable HDTV’s for a mass market. Later in 2002, Vizio become profitable resulting from a consulting contract with Gateway Computers and the company never looked back. In 2003, Vizio launched in Costco and then in Sams Club in 2005. All this success in less than five years.