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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

I’ve recently come across several of such lists and I thought it could be useful to aggregate them and share them here. Commercial open source companies – being open source is a powerful way to gain developer adoption and sell to enterprises a lot sooner.

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The Coming Brick Wall in Venture Capital & Why This is Good for US Innovation

Both Sides of the Table

Or the Cliff Note’s version: Open Source & Cloud Computing (led by Amazon) drove down tech startup costs by 90%. The result was a massive increase in startups & a whole group of new funding sources: both angels & “micro VCs&#. The lower costs & lower barriers to entry support this.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . In the private equity universe, most Partners have primary training as deal-makers, not as managers. 4Degrees helps leverage your network for sourcing. This is harder than it sounds.

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19 Psychological Tactics for Successful Crowdfunding Campaigns

ConversionXL

So you might be paying higher costs with those projects too. Most project creators describe their project using aggregate framing. To alleviate that blindness, separate the project into specific costs. But indirect reciprocity plays a powerful role in online communities, such as open-source development.

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Series Seed Financing Documents

www.seriesseed.com

.  That’s because there are not that many issues to negotiate in a simple equity financing.   Based on the comments received, both on the blog and in the many deals in which these documents have been used, I am convinced that the terms of a simple set of equity documents are really not an issue. 

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Will there be a wave of ‘maker-centric’ companies?

The Equity Kicker

Venturebeat has an article up this morning titled Startups and big corporations embrace the maker movement which reports that the annual Maker Faire has this year introduced a ‘Startup Pavillion’ which it cites as evidence that the maker movement is moving beyond hobbies to being a ‘rich source of economic potential’.

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Changes in Software & Venture Capital – Part 2 of 3

Both Sides of the Table

If you don’t want to read that post, the summary is: Open source computing drove computing costs down 90%, which spurred innovation in technology. Open cloud led by Amazon with their AWS services drove total operating costs down by 90%. This led to an explosion in startups. Will public investments come next?