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JUNE 28, 2011

In this three-part series I will explore the ways that the Venture Capital industry has changed over the past 5 years that I would argue are a direct result of changes in the software industry, not the other way around. So it’s unsurprising that typical “A rounds&# of venture capital were $5-10 million. Not Google.

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Venture Capital Software Capital Startup 334

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JUNE 3, 2010

This was really a fun week at TWiVC because we decided to have an entrepreneur come and talk about raising capital rather than having a VC come on. Raised angel money from Rob Lord, Reid Hoffman, Benchmark Capital and others. Orchard for e-Books”. Competitors: SmashWords , Google Books. Farb talks about how he did that.

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Venture Capital Startup Design S3 214

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

It encouraged groups of people to email everybody in their email address books and “connect&# on Plaxo so that when any of their contact information was changed online it could by synchronized with everybody’s local computer version and thus we could all stay in touch. Social Networking in Web 2.0.

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Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Web 297

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

Close shop to try and control monetization and you can only rely on your own internal innovation machine & capital. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2). That way other companies innovate on their own shekels (or at least a VCs) and let the best man win. Seems kinda obvious or am I missing somethign?

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318