2005 Business Model Cloud Early Stage 
Altgate
SEPTEMBER 16, 2010
The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded). But did you know that founder Markus Frind has just 3 employees for his $10MM+ revenue business? The servers are in the cloud, his advertising sales is with Google, etc.
genylabs.typepad.com
SEPTEMBER 24, 2011
Member since 01/2005. Before you agree to take equity in lieu of cash, you need to understand that any individual early stage start-up company equity is most likely going to be worthless. While Ive made at least my share of mistakes taking equity in lieu of pay, I continue to see this as a key part of my business model.
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Professor VC
SEPTEMBER 16, 2010
With all of the new ways to see early companies such as TechCrunch and YCombinator, I had a feeling that much of the luster was gone and debated whether it was worth the time to attend.The last time I went to DEMO was in 2005 for the launch of one of my companies, iControl Networks.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 23, 2012
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. We have lower costs to create companies – leading to more early stage innovation.
Professor VC
OCTOBER 11, 2010
It was early in 2005 and the company was Facebook. Sean Parker showed up about an hour late and gave an incredibly compelling pitch about the business, growth, etc. link] We are developing a software technology that works on the web using cloud computing to build software 100X faster and reduce bugs and cut costs.
www.paulgraham.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
March 2005 (This essay is derived from a talk at the Harvard ComputerSociety.) Microsofts originalplan was to make money selling programming languages, of all things.Their current business model didnt occur to them until IBM droppedit in their lap five years later. Want to start a startup? Get funded by Y Combinator.
www.vccafe.com
MARCH 11, 2013
VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. Hundreds of startups featured since 2005, will yours be next? Updated Business tools for Startups. Aptana Cloud (svn, IDE, php, java, rails etc…). Cloud Infrastructure. see the Libcloud -compatible cloud providers.
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