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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

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It was driven by the introduction of open-source software, most notably what was called the LAMP stack. That said, Amazon – through AWS – even without strong competition is as wonderful an experience as Amazon the eCommerce retailer feels to you as an online shopper. Open-Source Software & Horizontal Computing.

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

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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? Many angels were forced to fold given their tremendous losses in real estate and the stock market.

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Get Inside the Mind of an Angel Investor

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In my ongoing quest to get you good transcripts of the wonderful interviews we’ve done in the past, I present you with one amazing interview here with Tom McInerney – a friend, co-investor, former entrepreneur turned angel investor and “wizard of Oz&# behind the scenes at the uber hot startup Klout. In fact, HAVE done so.

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