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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Both Sides of the Table

Open-Source Software & Horizontal Computing. It was driven by the introduction of open-source software, most notably what was called the LAMP stack. 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. Spawning of Micro VCs.

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VC Seed Funding is Dead, Long Live VC Seed Funding!

Both Sides of the Table

With open source software (LAMP stack) and cloud computing infrastructure it just wasn’t that expensive to get your company going and founders just wanted to raise less money. Are there inherent risks in taking angel money? I’m a big fan of having angel investors, don’t get me wrong.