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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.

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Own The Problem, Lead The Solution

Alon Schwartz

The lamp broke, but I didn’t break it. Saying things like, “ Well, if we didn’t change priorities every week, we could have made our deadline ” or “ If you read my email updates, you would have known we were falling behind ” only lead to more battles and more pushback. Of course, you might be right. things just “happened.”

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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 best proof of a soft circle is whether an angel will email someone else (refer another investor) and start off that email with “I’m investing in…”. How investors’ risk differ (0:22:45).

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