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

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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. If a VC term sheet comes in they begin their due diligence process. The contra is also true. What exactly is seed funding anymore?

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

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Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin!

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The social Web in 2010: The emerging standards and technologies to watch

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On CBS MoneyWatch: Why Debit Cards Are Dangerous BNET Business Network: BNET TechRepublic ZDNet ZDNet Members login Newsletters Site Assistance RSS Feeds Home News & Blogs Videos White Papers Downloads Reviews Popular Enterprise Web 2.0 The Social Web Challenges of 2010: A List What are the challenges with the social Web today?

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Data is the Next Major Layer of the Cloud & A Major Victory for Startups

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That is excluding a single line of code or paying any salaries. During my second startup we never considered using cloud computer processing for our real-time processes but we did run some batch processes there. No wonder people had to raise $5 million just to get started back then. We raised $16.5 million in our A round.

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