Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 10, 2022

Until now, early stage startups were relatively unaffected. With over 1,000 global unicorns (and about 1.5 You can read more about it in their 2022 State of the Cloud report. The first version of its smart glasses (code name Orion) will be distributed to Developers (according to TheVerge ).

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

My delusions of coding grandeur quickly subsided and realized that I was not going to hack it. This was actually a great piece of advice, because ideas change and evolve in the early stages of the startup, it’s about the other person not the idea as much. Global Womens Journey. Underwritten by the Kauffman Foundation.

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thebarefootvc

JULY 13, 2016

We are now in the early stages of another major technological development called the blockchain. The transactions are stored on a global ledger (which is why the concept is often referred to as a distributed ledger). The global ledger could allow every one of us to store our own data in a highly secure “vault”.

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thebarefootvc

APRIL 13, 2016

We are now in the early stages of another major technological development called the blockchain. The transactions are stored on a global ledger (which is why the concept is often referred to as a distributed ledger). The global ledger could allow every one of us to store our own data in a highly secure “vault”.

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philipsmith.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

While there have been times in the last dozen or so years, usually during times of venture capital excess, that cash to founders, early-stage executives and other key employees has matched regular market compensation (still with the upside of the equity), this is not true in the vast majority in the start-up game. Cloud Computing.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Save Asia for post-IPO Single instance, multi-tenant, single datacenter - Have only one version of the code in production. Labels: SaaS , sales and marketing , software.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Security, Cloud, NoSQL databases, etc. Marc Andreessen: So the computer industry started in 1950 and basically ran for 50 years with the same model, which was a model where all of the new computers, all the new technology, all the new software started out being sold for the highest prices to the biggest organizations.

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infochachkie.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

The lowercase “c” was eventually capitalized after nearly 10 years, due to the awkward representation of the small “c” when the company was discussed in newspapers and magazines. Microsoft – Initially descriptive of the company’s software developed for the “micro” computer market, which eventually evolved into the “personal” computer market.

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Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 6, 2020

The term “early-stage” covers a lot of territory in venture investing, from incubating a brand-new idea, to investing in a Series A. They’ve been thinking about this problem, of how to give security teams visibility into cloud apps, for years and years, and knew how to deploy [Series A level capital].

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Cracking the Code

JULY 6, 2007

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. However, SaaS companies are trading today at an average of 5-6x trailing revenues (salesforce leading the pack with 8.7x), while traditional software companies are in the 2-3x range.

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techcrunch.com

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

Ressi estimates that the debt note now accounts for over 50% of all angel and early stage deals. Second, the debt note requires a fixed due date (or “maturity date”) for repayment of the total amount borrowed, plus interest. But here are some of the cons when it comes to using convertible debt. Product: The Funded. The Funded.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. s the new way to code, and quite easy to learn. You can write back end code in javascript, one language conquers all! Amazon EC2.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

This time around, there has been an explosion at the early stages, and the very late pre-IPO growth stages. “Founders don’t think their problems are due to trends. PlanGrid updates mean more cloud for construction. In fact, if anything, there are fewer. But the Series A has remained the same.

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