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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Both Sides of the Table

Open-Source Software & Horizontal Computing. It was driven by the introduction of open-source software, most notably what was called the LAMP stack. Open source became a movement – a mentality. The Emergence of “Open Cloud&# Infrastructure. At least in the consumer & business web.

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More "Open Source" Legal Tools

Altgate

Open source is the wrong term though; instead is probably better to say automate since LegalZoom and others are doing the same thing but commercially. Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Management , Startups , Technology and tagged legal , open source , Privacy Policy , Terms of Service , website.

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Congrats to Backupify! A Great Exit Story for the First Company I Ever Backed

This is going to be BIG.

I don''t remember when I started talking to Rob, but I know it was before February of 2005, because I found "rob@businesspundit.com" in the contacts I ported over when I left GM and went to USV. Maybe I should be writing that into my term sheets from now on: "If this crazy thing works, you have to invest in the next fund after you exit.".

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@altgate » Blog Archive » Law Firm Wilson Sonsini Now Preparing.

Altgate

 Today,  Wilson Sonsini  announced the launch of a " term sheet generator." "  It's basically a web tool that creates draft preferred financing term sheets for startups. "  It's basically a web tool that creates draft preferred financing term sheets for startups.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. Hundreds of startups featured since 2005, will yours be next? High Quality, and open sourced! Cheat Sheets : Equip youself with HTML/CSS cheatsheets! Mantis (Open source). Lighthouse.