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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Both Sides of the Table

Venture capital is in the process of its own creative destruction with new market entrants and new models of innovation at the precise moment that our industry itself is contracting. million in team costs to code, launch, manage, market & sell our software. When I built my first company starting in 1999 it cost $2.5

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Guide to the LA Startup Community

SoCal Delicious

The CitizenNet platform helps you measure, analyze, and automate social media marketing and engagement. Codeita lets you design, code, and publish all from a cloud-based LAMP development environment. Investors include Ron Conway, Ashton Kutcher, and Brian Solis. Full Disclosure: Matt works for CitizenNet.) Want to sponsor?

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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. Many angels were forced to fold given their tremendous losses in real estate and the stock market.

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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). what is your ratio? (0:37:35).

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