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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. Explain what Kazuhm does? It's been, honestly, amazing.

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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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The Changing Venture Landscape

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At Upfront we have always done 40% of our investing in Greater Los Angeles and it’s precisely for this reason. .” * 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 dot-com bonanza. there are many other great firms here.

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The Coming Brick Wall in Venture Capital & Why This is Good for US Innovation

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Or the Cliff Note’s version: Open Source & Cloud Computing (led by Amazon) drove down tech startup costs by 90%. The result was a massive increase in startups & a whole group of new funding sources: both angels & “micro VCs&#. The series started here if you want to read from the start.

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8 Key Rules for Starting a Business on a Shoestring

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The bad news is that many are already doing it, with competition growing, so the longer you wait, the less chance you have of getting there first. In a new startup, there is tremendous competitive value in registering intellectual property early, but you don’t need to contract these tasks to expensive experts any longer.

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The Changing Structure of the VC Industry

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The VC market has right-sized (returned back to mid 90′s levels & less competition). Lower costs to start a business (95% reduction), many more companies created & funded by angels / seed. We all have one-click purchase power (Apple, Google, Amazon, eBay). The iPhone was released.