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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

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Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%. LP contributions to VC firms shrunk from 2000 and by 2005-2008 had stabilized to around $30 billion per year. The desktop web introduced banner ads that offered “brand advertising” opportunities akin to television.

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How To Predict The Future

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The hardware trend showed that internet connection speeds were increasing, and by 2005, the speed of the connection would be sufficient that we could reasonably stream video in real time without resorting to heroic amounts of video compression or miracles in internet protocols. Nine years later, in February 2005, YouTube arrived.

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LinkedIn Explores What It Takes To Be an Entrepreneur [INFOGRAPHIC]

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4 Considerations for Expanding Your Startup to International Markets

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and China, and recently recorded their 1,000,000th download of Bonita Open Solution. If you’re working with an open source project, for example, it’s important that you have a definitive business model to drive revenue — though not at the cost of alienating your community of core contributors.

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Startup Investor Makes a Deal: Engineers for Equity

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Google VP: Here's How to Get Bought By Us

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And maybe you heard of a tiny Linux-based mobile software designer Google bought in 2005, called Android Inc.? In January 2006, Google acquired advertising company dMarc Broadcasting for $102 million. The company helped Google improve its mobile advertising solutions. For many startups, the transition isn’t a hard sell.

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5 Hot Ecommerce Trends to Watch

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