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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. There are 20x more consumers online.

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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.