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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

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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.

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Why Has Seed Investing Declined? And What Does this Mean for the Future?

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Over the past month a colleague ( Chang Xu ) and I sifted through data on the venture capital industry (as we do every year) and made a bunch of calls to VCs and LPs to confirm our hypotheses. As a result of the IPO window shifting we saw a massive inflow of public-market capital into the latest stages of venture. What gives?

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RightScale Rolls Out Grid Computing Product

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Santa Barbara-based RightScale , the venture-backed developer of cloud computing management software backed by Benchmark Capital and Index Ventures, said yesterday that it has launched a new product specifically focused on grid processing. Pricing on the new product was not announced. READ MORE>>.

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

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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. Social Networking is Becoming Mobile.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

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.