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The Changing Venture Landscape

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.” * I first wrote about the changes to the Venture Capital ecosystem 10 years ago and this still serves as a good primer of how we arrived at 2011, a decade on from the Web 1.0 The market today would barely be recognizable by a time traveler from 2011. 1 billion fund and therefore a $20 million is still just 2–2.5% of the fund.

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Q2 Venture Funding Drifts Downward In Southern California

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in funding during Q2 of 2012, down from Q1, and slightly below investments in Q2 of 2011. in funding, followed by San Diego, with $304.7M in funding. County and San Diego seeing slightly less funding that the prior quarter. M raised, and cloud computing provider Eucalyptus , with $30.0M

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Interview with Simon Anderson, DreamHost

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Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based web hosting and cloud computing provider DreamHost (www.dreamhost.com) raised a big, $30M funding round for the company--the first in the company''s long history. Simon Anderson: DreamHost offers a web hosting, and now, cloud computing platform and storage.

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What Mattered in 2010: Jim Andelman, Rincon Ventures

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3) Cloud computing offerings as an enabler to lean startups. This incredible wave of capital-efficient web-based businesses launches is due in no small part to the lower cost of entry provided by cloud-based offerings.

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Interview with Kian Saneii, Independa

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Among those startups is San Diego-based Independa (www.independa.com) , which is trying to crack the code to figure out how to apply the convergence of wireless technology, cloud computing, and software to elderly care. Cloud computing is also very important. Can you talk a bit about your recent funding round?

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TenHands HD Video Collaboration I Founders Interview

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TenHands was Incorporated on January 11, 2011 and launched its first alpha service in November of 2011, private beta in April 2011 and open beta in July 2012. Any funding? And then, imagine if it worked natively with almost any other popular cloud based application. When was it launched? Any business partnerships?

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Pepcom: Mobile Focus San Diego | HTC, Samsung, X1, Paymentone They Haz It!

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Not to say though that the event was only for the quirky; with just the sheer momentum the mobile market has picked up throughout 2011 (many thanks in part to the heavy artillery arm’s race that Android makers have declared on Apple), I have no doubt that Android devices are going to keep upping the ante with this ongoing horsepower war.