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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. million in team costs to code, launch, manage, market & sell our software.

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Praying to the God of Valuation

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Something happened in the past 7 years in the startup and venture capital world that I hadn’t experienced since the late 90’s — we all began praying to the God of Valuation. How might our next phase of the journey seem brighter, even with more uncertain days for startups and capital markets? They were a way to gather cheap capital.

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How MakeSpace Recently Closed $30 million in New Funding

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million in capital to build out its operations in 4 cities: New York City , Los Angeles , Chicago and Washington D.C. years of software development. We have built route management software so that drivers have productive routes and can cluster pick-ups and drop-offs.

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Insights and Opinions: Creating High Barriers to Entry

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For our Insights and Opinions article today, Brian Horakh , CEO of Del Mar-based Zoovy , a developer of e-commerce software, gives some hints and tips on creating a high barrier to entry. Today with the Internet and the advent of virtual/drop-ship inventory, anybody can start up a niche retailer with minimal capital.

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Guide to the LA Startup Community

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Southern California companies are second to only Silicon Valley in raising venture capital , there are three major universities to recruit talent – UCLA, Caltech, and USC – and a thriving startup community to mingle with. Codeita lets you design, code, and publish all from a cloud-based LAMP development environment.

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

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This is part of my ongoing series about Raising Venture Capital. 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. Look at Josh Kopelman over at First Round Capital.

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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). Today, innovation is happening at an increasingly faster rate and , that being true, Thomas thought it was more efficient to match capital to ideas than execute the ideas himself. The hard part is always the execution.

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