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

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What’s astonishing and few other than those who lived it as startups (I launched my second startup in this era) realize is how profound of an impact that rise of Amazon AWS (S3 & EC2) had on the startup market. As you can see below the number of seed funds shot up dramatically between 2006 and 2014.

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This Week in VC with Farb Nivi, Founder of Grockit

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Raised angel money from Rob Lord, Reid Hoffman, Benchmark Capital and others. Founded in 2009 in Los Angeles by Michelle Crames. Current round: $8.1mm in Series C by S3 Ventures (lead), Adams Capital Mgmt, Triangle Peak Partners. Here’s this week’s outline: INTRO to FARB NIVI. Farb is the founder & CEO of Grockit.com.

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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

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They started by offering cloud storage (S3) on a super cheap, pay-as-you consume basis. The biggest media attention in our industry went to the so-called “super angels&# during the 2009/10 timeframe and while I don’t believe there is such thing as a super angel I believe that much media attention was deserved.