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Praying to the God of Valuation

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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. What happened? People were building.

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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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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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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. Entrepreneurs want less cash because they want to control dilution and preserve exit options at lower prices. What exactly is seed funding anymore?