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Why Has Seed Investing Declined? And What Does this Mean for the Future?

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Seed investments are down by any measure (funds, deals, dollars) over the past 3 years in deals < $1 million AND in deals between $1–5 million. thus the rise of “pre seed” investing). It’s very noticeable in terms of funds raised, dollars invested and deals completed. What gives? The “A Round” of my startup in 1999 was $16.5

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GRP Partners Backs Cloud Database Firm

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The lead investor on GRP's investment in MongoLab was not disclosed. MongoLab develops a cloud-based version of the MongoDB database software, which runs on Amazon EC2 and Rackspace. READ MORE>>.

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Morphlabs Launches Enterprise Cloud Management Platform

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The firm said the new product allows users to use Amazon's EC2 cloud service to deliver enterprise applications over the public cloud. Morphlabs is backed by AO Capital, CSK Venture Capital, Frontera Capital, and Global Gateway Investment Group. READ MORE>>.

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Morphlabs Raises $5.5M

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The round was led by Global Gateway Investment Group (G2iG), and also includes Frontera Group LLC, CSK Venture Capital Co. El Segundo-based Morphlabs , the latest startup of Winston Damarillo, is announcing today that it has raised $5.5M in a Series B financing round. and AO Capital Partners Ltd. READ MORE>>.

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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

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I will argue that LPs who invest in VC funds will also need to adjust a bit as well. They then launched processing capabilities (EC2) and we startups suddenly didn’t need to buy production servers. When I built my first company starting in 1999 it cost $2.5 million in infrastructure just to get started and another $2.5

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Interview with Dale Quayle, FileTrek

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We also have a web experience, and we host that on Amazon EC2. But, there are many financial services providers who have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in their own data centers, and we give them that option, too. Is this a mobile application, web service, or how does it work? What are you doing with the new funding round?

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Bringing The Benefit Of Managed Cloud To Enterprises, With Metacloud

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Amazon EC2 would be considered fully managed cloud, which also happens to be off premise. You can really oversubscribe that capital investment, and drive up utilization to something really meaningful, like 80 to 85 percent utilization. That is on premise, off premise, fully managed, and do-it-yourself. That''s what we''re seeing.

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