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How MakeSpace Recently Closed $30 million in New Funding

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years of software development. We have built route management software so that drivers have productive routes and can cluster pick-ups and drop-offs. We have built route management software so that drivers have productive routes and can cluster pick-ups and drop-offs.

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Praying to the God of Valuation

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There were startups and a software industry but barely. SEEING THINGS FROM THE VC SIDE OF THE TABLE While I was a VC in 2007 & 2008 those were dead years because the market again evaporated due the the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). There was no money train. It was 1991. We still loved every moment.

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

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With open source software (LAMP stack) and cloud computing infrastructure it just wasn’t that expensive to get your company going and founders just wanted to raise less money. If a VC term sheet comes in they begin their due diligence process. They’re active, helpful and wise. The contra is also true.