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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%. In 1998 it was 150 million, 1999 250 million and by 2000 it had crossed 350 million. The opportunity to transact at the point of purchase increases the sheer number of revenue opportunities.

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Viola Private Equity Pumps $7 Million into Zend

VC Cafe

V iola Private Equity , an Israeli PE fund with $164 million under management for technology buyouts, has announced a $7 million investment in Zend , the leading provider of open-source and commercial solutions based on PHP web applications. According to Linkedin , Zend has a headcount of 130.

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The unimportance of product names

37signals.com

Established 1999 in Chicago. I agree – this reminds me of a friend who was involved in three different IT start-ups, none of which ever turned a dime of revenue. Salon has an article about naming companies, from 1999: The name game. For developers we present our powerful yet simple open-source web application framework.

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Top 30 Startup Technology and Product Posts for September 2010

SoCal CTO

5 great viral marketing campaigns (and what small businesses can learn from them!) - crowdSPRING Blog , September 13, 2010 At crowdSPRING we talk a great deal about how we can leverage our limited marketing resources to drive traffic and revenues and build strong community. Except they won’t be called Product Managers.

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Boom and Bust and What Comes Next

Scalable Startup

is mostly sanguine, claiming that the market’s standards for viability have increased since the 2000 bust and citing Twitter (revenue but no profit) as the model for the new public tech company. First Street and Market Street by Leo vanMunching. Beale Street and Market Street by Leo vanMunching. Utah Mining and Construction are long gone.