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How MakeSpace Recently Closed $30 million in New Funding

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In the early days this is expensive because the logistics & warehouses are amortized over a small customer base but with scale this infrastructure and the technology that drives it becomes a powerful moat and hard for new entrants to compete. MakeSpace is building the exact same systems but in reverse. years of software development.

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Get Inside the Mind of an Angel Investor

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Thomas and his partner lived off of credit cards, and used crappy data centers and open source software (LAMP). Looking back, what did you learn and what would you have done differently? (0:14:15). The #1 lesson learned: having a business partner (50/50) is just like a marriage (although Thomas has never been married).

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