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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

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For both companies, the initial traction enabled raising seed money to get them to a traditional VC investment.) His entire product is just an HTML front-end to libpurple, which is 99% of his codebase. Will it kill these SV types to admit building HTML front-ends to open source products? Ev From nothing to something?

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Top Startup Advisor Paul Graham Just Warned Against Taking Google's Money

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Google Ventures has made more than 100 seed investments, Maris said, including some past and present Y Combinator companies, and is making one to two new ones a week. Parse, one of the most-anticipated startups in Silicon Valley these days , went through Y Combinator last year and raised seed money from Google Ventures , for example.