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The Changing Venture Landscape

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.” * I first wrote about the changes to the Venture Capital ecosystem 10 years ago and this still serves as a good primer of how we arrived at 2011, a decade on from the Web 1.0 And the truth is that several entrepreneurs prefer it this way. dot-com bonanza. You have seed rounds but you now have “pre-seed rounds.” just to name a few!

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Steve Blank Discusses The Origin And Future Of The Lean Startup Movement

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Steve is also a Stanford Professor and noted marketing entrepreneur. Large companies write business plans, why of course, that’s the organizing document for a startup. Yet we took this document, the business plan, because we knew nothing else and said, ‘Go write one of these.’.

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Opening The Cloud: Marten Mickos, CEO of Eucalyptus Systems

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Eucalyptus’ underlying technology was developed at UC Santa Barbara. The most typical use case is a scalable web service. You can manage across AWS (Amazon Web Services) and Eucalyptus, for instance.”. They read the documentation. A good example is the shoemaker Puma. They run all their websites on Eucalyptus.

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Interview with Daryl Bernstein, RightSignature

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This morning's interview with Daryl Bernstein , CEO and co-founder of Santa Barbara-based RightSignature (www.rightsignature.com), a firm which has created an online, software-as-a-service offering to collect legally binding signatures on documents. We've also got a huge list of additional document types in the works.

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Interview with Mark Sylvester, Likeabilitee

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Santa Barbara-based Likeabilitee (www.likeabilitee.com) has come up with a new, highly visual service which makes it very easy for you to analyze and understand how people are engaging with your social media posts on Facebook. We're entrepreneurs, and we like to build our business, and wish we were known a little more.

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How to Work with Lawyers at a Startup

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I recently read a post over on VentureHacks titled, “ Top Ten Reasons Entrepreneurs Hate Lawyers &# written by Scott Walker (who blogs on legal issues for entrepreneurs ). Because many great entrepreneurs work with lawyers in registering their companies they have their ear to the pavement on the earliest of company formations.

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Interview with Zareh Baghdasarian, 15desks

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We've basically taken advantage of all the new technology out there--especially, the web-based service model. As a teacher, you can share documents with colleagues, or visit and forum and have discussions with other teachers. Later on, when you are at a university, you might manage things like your resume and portfolio.

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