article thumbnail

Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Both Sides of the Table

It was driven by the introduction of open-source software, most notably what was called the LAMP stack. Of course there were variants – we preferred PostGres to MySQL and many people used other programming languages than PHP. The first major change in our industry was imperceptible to us as an industry. I find this strange.

article thumbnail

Get Inside the Mind of an Angel Investor

Both Sides of the Table

Thomas and his partner lived off of credit cards, and used crappy data centers and open source software (LAMP). The team, of course, is just as important as the product or idea. Don’t obsess over your competition because most times competition will implode on their own, pivot in a different direction, or you’ll learn to coexist.

Angel 302