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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Both Sides of the Table

Open-Source Software & Horizontal Computing. It was driven by the introduction of open-source software, most notably what was called the LAMP stack. Open source became a movement – a mentality. The Emergence of “Open Cloud&# Infrastructure. These are very different.

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Congrats to Backupify! A Great Exit Story for the First Company I Ever Backed

This is going to be BIG.

In fact, my history with Rob and Backupify goes back almost ten years, well before the idea of cloud backup was ever a glimmer in anyone''s eye. He was an interesting guy and I watched him throughout a bunch of interesting projects, like a complete open source business where all the employees got to make the decisions.

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Bitesize Sunday: Israeli startup headlines March 8

VC Cafe

Perfecto Mobile Handset Cloud service now on Sony Ericsson - According to Forrester Research, testing is the fastest growing segment of the applications outsourcing industry. Israeli start up Perfecto Mobile is well-positioned to capture the value from the growing number of applications with its Handset Cloud service for mobile app testing.

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VC Seed Funding is Dead, Long Live VC Seed Funding!

Both Sides of the Table

With open source software (LAMP stack) and cloud computing infrastructure it just wasn’t that expensive to get your company going and founders just wanted to raise less money. If a VC term sheet comes in they begin their due diligence process. The contra is also true.

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Series Seed Financing Documents

www.seriesseed.com

2) Redline - Series Seed Term Sheet (1 v. Series Seed Term Sheet (v 2.0) Series Seed Term Sheet (v 2.0) The advent of cloud computing, open source software, platforms with APIs, and numerous other changes have lowered the cost of launching a new enterprise.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

interactions, widgets, effects Django – high-level Python framework Cappuccino – open source framework for app development Kodingen – cloud development environment, code editor, hosting service, collaboration platform.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. High Quality, and open sourced! Cheat Sheets : Equip youself with HTML/CSS cheatsheets! Mantis (Open source). Nagios (open source). Panda (Open source).