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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

How might our next phase of the journey seem brighter, even with more uncertain days for startups and capital markets? And then in the late 90’s money crept in, swept in to town by public markets, instant wealth and an absurd sky-rocketing of valuations based on no reasonable metrics. It’s just a market. What happened?

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How MakeSpace Recently Closed $30 million in New Funding

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I pointed out that the storage market in the US alone is ~$30 billion / year and there is no dominant provider — the largest player has < 10% market share. But finding a market which is large, out-dated, has zero tech and is ripe for disruption can lead to very large outcomes. years of software development.

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SPONSOR POST: Southern California Technology Firms Are Hiring

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Slow job market? Not in Southern California's technology market! Recent job postings on the site: LAMP/Perl Developers , Los Angeles, Oversee.net. Recent job postings on the site: LAMP/Perl Developers , Los Angeles, Oversee.net. Online Marketing Coordinator , Huntington Beach, Freebinar.com.

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Insights and Opinions: Creating High Barriers to Entry

socalTECH

If your business is a "me too" entrant into any market niche, even the smallest success will soon attract competitors that will sap some degree of your potential growth. That means unless you happen to stumble upon a magic lamp and use one of your three wishes, you're eventually going to end up scrapping it out with several competitors.

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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

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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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Qtee: “We’re the Nike ID of the Fashion World”

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Using the same custom tech base as our parent company, Lamps Plus, we adapted, modified and tweaked it to bring a unique twist to custom fashion. Greek Licensing for the sorority market. We like to think of ourselves as the NIKEiD of the fashion world.”. The customization process is incredibly straightforward too. CoolHaus Ice Cream.

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Dude, Akanda Is Tying The Cloud Together Like A Rug

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DreamHost has a successful track record of incubating technologies in-house and then releasing them to the broader market. The release of Linux in 1991 led to a resurgence of Open Sourcing that was embraced by a new generation of software developers aiming to disrupt the legacy, proprietary software market.

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