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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

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The trend of funding anything from the first $25k to funding $50 million at a billion+ valuation is unlikely to last as the skills and style to be effective at all stages are diverse enough to warrant focus. That makes both of these amazing companies great channels for startups. The Emergence of “Open Cloud&# Infrastructure.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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might have been a lot less differentiated. MySpace would liked to have owned YouTube but didn’t have the public stock valuation to purchase them at the price that Google did. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2). But less considered is the fact that the success of the Web 2.0