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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

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I will argue that when the dust settles, although we will have fewer firms, each type well end up more focused on traditional stage segments that cater to the core competencies of that firm. When I built my first company starting in 1999 it cost $2.5 million in infrastructure just to get started and another $2.5 Enter Amazon.

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Insights and Opinions: Creating High Barriers to Entry

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Today with the Internet and the advent of virtual/drop-ship inventory, anybody can start up a niche retailer with minimal capital. 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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How MakeSpace Recently Closed $30 million in New Funding

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So how did a company that provides storage grow so fast (we’ll exit 2017 with 10’s of millions in recurring revenue), why is it so defensible and is it really a tech startup? If you buy that Amazon is a tech startup then essentially you’ve already answered the question. In short — how the hell did we raise $30 million?

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LAMPsig

SoCal Tech Calendar

Saturday, September 20, 2008 -- "LAMP developers guide to subversion" LAMPsig. He is currently working for a startup company in the multiplayer social network gaming space. Speaker: David Rolston has a long history of web development that dates back to the earliest days of the WWW.

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Feather Launches Furniture Subscriptions In LA, OC

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The New York-based startup offers up furniture from retailer West Elm, which lets them rent tables, lamps, sofas, love seats, and more--and lets them also return and swap those products anytime they like.

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Interview with Mark Sylvester, Likeabilitee

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Santa Barbara-based Likeabilitee (www.likeabilitee.com) has come up with a new, highly visual service which makes it very easy for you to analyze and understand how people are engaging with your social media posts on Facebook. Mark Sylvester: Likeabilitee is a project my partner, KymberleeWeil and I, came up with about a year ago.

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Software Development Companies in Southern California

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size of company (startup to very large), stage (early stage to established firms) vary widely. Most networking events tend to either focus on specific technologies (PHP,Net, C#, Microsoft, LAMP, MySQL, Open Source, Hadoop, Java, etc.) or focused on industry or type of company.