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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Both Sides of the Table

In this three-part series I will explore the ways that the Venture Capital industry has changed over the past 5 years that I would argue are a direct result of changes in the software industry, not the other way around. When I built my first company starting in 1999 it cost $2.5 Open-Source Software & Horizontal Computing.

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Morphlabs Raises $5.5M

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El Segundo-based Morphlabs , the latest startup of Winston Damarillo, is announcing today that it has raised $5.5M Damarillo is best known for founding Gluecode, which he sold to IBM in 2005, and has since been starting up firms whose basis is open source software. in a Series B financing round. READ MORE>>.

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Interview with Neville Spiteri, TheBlu

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WEMO Media is an interesting combination of Hollywood, computer games, and deep technical experience, one of the few companies we have seen which seems to combine both the worlds of high tech and software with content, interactive, and Hollywood. Part of our DNA is pure software engineering, and dealing with that large amount of data.

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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

A very interesting topic, especially for those of us involved in developing for start-ups. The basic conclusion was that it was a bit premature if you were talking about a serious, funded start-up. Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. Will it survive as long as you need?

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Bringing The Benefit Of Managed Cloud To Enterprises, With Metacloud

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However, Metacloud (www.metacloud.com), a startup providing private cloud services, is looking to change the equation and make it much easier for companies to deploy their own private clouds. We think those four dimensions matter because you can sort of mix and match those, and end up with interesting business models.

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5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California

SoCal Delicious

10 New York City startups we’re crazy about. Apple event rumor round-up: iPad Mini, iPad 3.5, Investors are no longer compelled to stick to their own backyard, and Southern California is changing the startup landscape, consistently ranking in the top three along with Silicon Valley and the Boston area. 11 hrs ago.

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Interview with Dale Quayle, FileTrek

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To address that, Los Angeles-based FileTrek (www.filetrek.com) announced a funding round for its cloud-based software for sharing enterprise and business files yesterday. What our software does, is it allows that collaboration to take place, but also keeps track of that. We also have a web experience, and we host that on Amazon EC2.

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