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Early-stage Regional Venture Funds–part 2 of 3 of Bigger in Bend

Steve Blank

However, four critical advances over the past decade (cloud, accelerators, Lean, and Angels) not only changed the math for tech investing but made regional tech clusters possible. The cloud , open-source development tools and web 2.0 Why Valley Rules Don’t Work in Regional Economies.

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What I *Would Have* Said at TechCrunch Disrupt

Both Sides of the Table

You have an open source stack, cloud services for storage, processing & management and APIs for just about anything you want. My wife worked at Google so while we had good income in Silicon Valley it’s hardly the life of luxury given the costs of housing. We all know that. I had two kids and a rental house.

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Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?

www.quora.com

What did you take from idea on the back of a napkin to liquidity event? Ryan Hornbeck , Computer and Cloud Systems Integrator. John Furrier , Silicon Valley is my playground - Liv. Now we turn it around. It's the developer's turn to ask the Biz Guy. What companies have you launched? For your employees?

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Aptana Cloud (svn, IDE, php, java, rails etc…). Cloud Infrastructure. see the Libcloud -compatible cloud providers. cloud-based survey, free account. Wufoo - create contact forms, online surveys and event registrations. Cloud-based drawing tool. Cloud Services and Tools. s cloud solution.