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6 Information Surges Raise Huge Startup Opportunities

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There is still infinite room for new startup sales modes and models. Cloud computing: the death of dedicated infrastructure. More and more company and personal services are being virtualized to the Cloud. Data enable: use metrics and measurements. Online entertainment: millions of channels, billions of actors.

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Content World Turned Upside Down

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From GoogleTV to iTunes and YouTube to the rise of social networks to e-book readers to cloud computing and free software, the worlds of newspapers, books, music, platform games, film, television and even software have seen the sales of physical media such as DVDs plummet. Speakers: Richard Berger, Sr.

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6 Technology Trends Will Spawn Countless New Ventures

Startup Professionals Musings

There is still infinite room for new startup sales modes and models. Cloud computing: the death of dedicated infrastructure. More and more company and personal services are being virtualized to the Cloud. Data enable: use metrics and measurements. Online entertainment: millions of channels, billions of actors.

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Content World Turned Upside Down

SoCal Tech Calendar

From GoogleTV to iTunes and YouTube to the rise of social networks to e-book readers to cloud computing and free software, the worlds of newspapers, books, music, platform games, film, television and even software have seen the sales of physical media such as DVDs plummet.

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Sometimes we measure things and see that in the short term they actually hurt sales. But we do it anyway, because we believe that the short-term metrics probably aren''t indicative of the long term.”. If you haven''t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly JohnGreathouse.com articles!

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Our fund (Upfront Ventures) recently returned >1x an entire $200 million fund just selling small minatory in secondary sales while still holding most of our stock for an ultimate public market exits. dot-com bonanza. If we wanted to we could have sold > 2x the fund easily in the secondary markets with significant upside remaining.

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6 Trends Are Driving A Data Tsunami For Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

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