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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Both Sides of the Table

In this three-part series I will explore the ways that the Venture Capital industry has changed over the past 5 years that I would argue are a direct result of changes in the software industry, not the other way around. million in team costs to code, launch, manage, market & sell our software.

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Insights and Opinions: Creating High Barriers to Entry

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For our Insights and Opinions article today, Brian Horakh , CEO of Del Mar-based Zoovy , a developer of e-commerce software, gives some hints and tips on creating a high barrier to entry. Today with the Internet and the advent of virtual/drop-ship inventory, anybody can start up a niche retailer with minimal capital.

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Choosing Internet Platforms

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They also are VERY interesting for background processing tasks that take compute resources or from a storage cloud standpoint. Finally we get to: Peter Coffee , Director of Platform Research, Salesforce.com His premise is that we should be beyond having to buy servers, software, or any other infrastructure. Server and client in Java.

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