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Why Has Seed Investing Declined? And What Does this Mean for the Future?

Both Sides of the Table

Between 1999–2005 the costs went down by 90% and between 2005–2010 they went down a further 90%. million and my A Round in 2005 was only $500,000 (and that’s all I ever raised). This is why many VCs are waiting and letting deals mature a bit before leaning into rounds. The “A Round” of my startup in 1999 was $16.5

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@altgate » Blog Archive » Outsourcing For Startups

Altgate

The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded). The servers are in the cloud, his advertising sales is with Google, etc. We tried to provide a framework for startups to think about what activities should be outsourced and why.

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Working for Equity Instead of Cash

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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. Wall Street Journal: With New Technology, Start-Ups Go Lean. Cloud Services. September 2011. August 2011. April 2011.

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Bitesize Friday: NowForce, Cotendo, United Parents, Zerto and Entrepreneur Resources

VC Cafe

According to Israel Venture Capital (IVC), Ra’anana-based Advasense raised $31 million in 2005-07 from Giza Venture Capital , BlueRun Ventures. Zerto brings disaster recovery to the cloud – Ziv Kedem, Zerto’s CEO: “[disaster recovery] is something you only want when you really need it. New Product launches.

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Startup Resources

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VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. Hundreds of startups featured since 2005, will yours be next? Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Part 3- Lean Cust. Aptana Cloud (svn, IDE, php, java, rails etc…). Cloud Infrastructure.