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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%. This has led to the creation of incubators, accelerators and seed funds. In 1998 it was 150 million, 1999 250 million and by 2000 it had crossed 350 million. We’re online all the time and at high speed.

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Top 30 Startup Technology and Product Posts for September 2010

SoCal CTO

Coworking Spaces - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , September 2, 2010 I've never been much of a fan of incubators. Betaworks is more than an incubator, but they have shown that they can make the incubation model work with projects like bit.ly ", they are aimed at convincing companies to use open source software.

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Boom and Bust and What Comes Next

Scalable Startup

He would know; he’s been backing tech start-ups since 1984, incubating at least one hen house full of millionaires.and probably a few empty ones. Consulting Google, the oracle of the Internet, indicates that there is little in the way of consensus regarding the possibility of a tech boom/bust scenario playing out in the near term.