Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2014

Part 2: Early-stage Regional Venture Funds. The cloud , open-source development tools and web 2.0 as a distribution channel have vastly reduced the amount of capital a startup needs at the early stage when the risk is greatest. What’s Missing Is Early Stage Capital. ——-.

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JUNE 30, 2011

Or the Cliff Note’s version: Open Source & Cloud Computing (led by Amazon) drove down tech startup costs by 90%. The result was a massive increase in startups & a whole group of new funding sources: both angels & “micro VCs&#. Some are going later stage to not miss out on hot deals.

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JUNE 28, 2011

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.

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APRIL 3, 2010

Because it is a “series&# I plan to get into some of the deeper complexities of funds such as “cross over funds&# and “why VC’s hate to price their own deals&# at a later stage. We used the Y Combinator open source term sheet. The last post was a high-level primer. We took the $500k.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

VI: Revenue-based financing: The next step for private equity and early-stage investment. is one of the early and most well-known Flexible VCs, based out of Salt Lake City, Utah. They have open-sourced their investment structure , now on version 3.0, IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Data companies focused on early-stage startups include Aingel , fundsUP , Preseries , PredictLeads , and Sploda. Later stage investors are using for sourcing private company marketplace services focused on more established companies, listed below under “Step 11: Exit”. Results from a Survey of Early-Stage VC Funds.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2011

If you don’t want to read that post, the summary is: Open source computing drove computing costs down 90%, which spurred innovation in technology. Open cloud led by Amazon with their AWS services drove total operating costs down by 90%. Some have done earlier-stage deals and done well. There are also others.

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