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The Changing Venture Landscape

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And as a result of this there are now very robust secondary markets where founders and seed-funds alike are selling down their ownership long before an ultimate exit. It’s just now that we’re Seed Investors. We can’t wait for customers to use the product for 12–18 months and do customer interviews or look at purchase cohorts.

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Interview with Winston Damarillo, Morphlabs

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Morphlabs is a cloud computing company, part of a good cluster of firms that we now have in Southern California, including 3Tera in Orange County, and Eucalyptus in Santa Barbara. It's nice to see us covering all of these cloud-enabling types of technologies in Southern California for a change. What's Morphlabs?

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How Halla Is Using AI To Personalize Food, With Spencer Price

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in seed funding, from E&A Venture Capital and SOSV. At the end of the day, we help retailers make smarter recommendations to their customers, which leads to better business. Spencer Price: The customer experience with e-commerce has become less and less human, as algorithms on digital platform replace human interaction.

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

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A few years ago it became fashionable for large VC’s to do seed funding. 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. I think they definitely qualify as a VC and not a seed fund.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

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Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%. This has led to the creation of incubators, accelerators and seed funds. Try charging customers for your product when you have 12 competitors giving the product away free finances by $20 million of VC.