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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Both Sides of the Table

I will argue that LPs who invest in VC funds will also need to adjust a bit as well. Linux (instead of UNIX), Apache (web server software), MySQL (instead of Oracle) and PHP. Of course there were variants – we preferred PostGres to MySQL and many people used other programming languages than PHP. These are very different.

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Interview with Michael Witz, Mob Science

socalTECH

We have one, major original IP game in development, and a couple of weeks ago we announced a publishing deal with Zynga to publish our new game on Facebook and Zynga's own platform. Michael Witz: We've been building smaller, lightweight games on the Facebook platform since early 2008. They're exceptionally talented and bright people.

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5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California

SoCal Delicious

Huge news: Millions of PHP developers can now build mobile apps for iOS and Android — in PHP. Just this year, Q2 investments in SoCal and New England were virtually the same, with $838 million and $843 million invested respectively, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers MoneyTree Report. Publisher Platform (P3).