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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Both Sides of the Table

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. Facebook is a “platform cloud&# provider, too.

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

Both Sides of the Table

MySpace would liked to have owned YouTube but didn’t have the public stock valuation to purchase them at the price that Google did. I’ve written extensively on the topic , but in a nutshell it is: an RSS reader, a chat room, instant messaging, a marketing channel, a customer service department and increasingly a data mine.

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Startup Resources

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Amazon EC2. Seed Stage Valuation Guide. Roku Channel Store. valuations. Jing Project. Screenflow Pixelmator. Snapz Pro X. SimpleCDN (commercial). CoralCDN (academic). Amazon CloudFront. Cloud Infrastructure. Google App Engine. see the Libcloud -compatible cloud providers. Flexiscale. Visibility. Elevator Pitches.