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Why Has Seed Investing Declined? And What Does this Mean for the Future?

Both Sides of the Table

What’s astonishing and few other than those who lived it as startups (I launched my second startup in this era) realize is how profound of an impact that rise of Amazon AWS (S3 & EC2) had on the startup market. But the strangest thing about the decline in the seed stage only happened in the seed stage.

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Startup Tools

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signup, upgrade, trial pricing Zuora – online subscription management FeeFighters – find the cheapest credit card processors HealPay – Collections made easy Customer Support Tender – support, knowledgebase tool for your site GetSatisfaction - conversations between companies / customers.

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Startup Resources

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Amazon EC2. GetSatisfaction - conversations between companies / customers. Seed Stage Valuation Guide. 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.