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6 Information Surges Raise Huge Startup Opportunities

Startup Professionals Musings

Cloud computing: the death of dedicated infrastructure. More and more company and personal services are being virtualized to the Cloud. As an entrepreneur, what steps can you take to help your business not only survive the data hurricane, but to thrive under these new and challenging conditions? Marty Zwilling.

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The Changing Venture Landscape

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And there is so much money around being thrown at so many entrepreneurs that many firms don’t even care about board seats, governance rights or heaven forbid doing work with the company because that would eat into the VCs time needed to chase 5 more deals. And the truth is that several entrepreneurs prefer it this way. dot-com bonanza.

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Interview with Simon Anderson, DreamHost

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Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based web hosting and cloud computing provider DreamHost (www.dreamhost.com) raised a big, $30M funding round for the company--the first in the company''s long history. Simon Anderson: DreamHost offers a web hosting, and now, cloud computing platform and storage.

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6 Technology Trends Will Spawn Countless New Ventures

Startup Professionals Musings

Cloud computing: the death of dedicated infrastructure. More and more company and personal services are being virtualized to the Cloud. As an entrepreneur, what steps can you take to help your business not only survive the data hurricane, but to thrive under these new and challenging conditions? Marty Zwilling.

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Opening The Cloud: Marten Mickos, CEO of Eucalyptus Systems

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I recently spoke with Marten Mickos, the former CEO of MySQL and current CEO of Eucalyptus Systems , the leader in private cloud platforms. Since its origin as an academic research project in 2007, Eucalyptus has become the dominant open source cloud solution, boasting over 25,000 clouds formed.

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6 Trends Are Driving A Data Tsunami For Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

Cloud computing: the death of dedicated infrastructure. More and more company and personal services are being virtualized to the Cloud. As an entrepreneur, what steps can you take to help your business not only survive the data hurricane, but to thrive under these new and challenging conditions? Marty Zwilling.

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The Coming Brick Wall in Venture Capital & Why This is Good for US Innovation

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Or the Cliff Note’s version: Open Source & Cloud Computing (led by Amazon) drove down tech startup costs by 90%. With more competition in early-stage many VCs are investing smaller amounts at earlier stages. The series started here if you want to read from the start. Brick image courtesy of Fotolia.