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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. The larger ones also do more to hold CEO summits, create recruiting databases, set up email distribution lists, create pools of stock options that can be shared across companies, etc. Open-Source Software & Horizontal Computing.

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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. This kind of behavior started when we were kids.

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VC Seed Funding is Dead, Long Live VC Seed Funding!

Both Sides of the Table

This posting was inspired by an email from Rajat Suri who wrote me an email in response to Chris Dixon’s blog post (link below) from August, which recently re-ran on Business Insider and has generated much Twitter chatter. A few years ago it became fashionable for large VC’s to do seed funding.

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Guide to the LA Startup Community

SoCal Delicious

Codeita lets you design, code, and publish all from a cloud-based LAMP development environment. Mark Reply Cancel reply Leave a Comment Previous post: Why Email Isn’t Dead Next post: The Power of Small Get-Togethers Producing an event? Investors include Ron Conway, Ashton Kutcher, and Brian Solis. Want to sponsor?

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5 Apps To Get The Most Out Of Your Philips Hue Lights 

Tech Zulu Event

Set a lamp color to indicate today’s temperature. Blink when you get an email from a certain person. Even if you don’t have a smart home, IFTTT uses the power of the web to create recipes to trigger your lights to turn a certain color based on another action. Have your lights: Change to blue when it rains outside. Turn on at sunset.

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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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