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The ?PC? Era Finally Arrives ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

What he and others have meant is of course that the desktop computer is losing its preeimance as the primary computing platform with the rise of smartphones and tablets at one end and cloud computing (in all its forms) at the other. It was only in 2000 that a majority of of US homes had a computer. Author howerl. Read More ».

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Texas Startup Manifesto 2.0

Austin Startup

It’s like a dam has broken and now there is a flood of new entrepreneurs, investors, and big companies moving to Texas. In 2000 or 2010, it made sense to build in San Francisco. All of the investors, all of the big companies, all of the government groups?—?they they are all chasing talent. Something is different now.

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The Rise & Fall of Great Venture Firms [Part 1] ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

On the IT side of VC investing, we’ve seen countless waves crest and fall… mainframes to minicomputer/workstation, workstation to PC, copper to optical networking, client/server software to cloud, the fabless semiconductor model, magnetic tape to hard drive, etc. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC.

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Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010

SoCal CTO

Welcome to the Lost Decade (for Entrepreneurs, IPO’s and VC’s) - Steve Blank , July 15, 2010 If you take funding from a venture capital firm or angel investor and want to build a large, enduring company (rather than sell it to the highest bidder), this isn’t the decade to do it. The process is called mass syndication, or a party round.