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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%. This has led to the creation of incubators, accelerators and seed funds. The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. One that is powered by three drivers, each of which is a part of a major trend: The use of platforms enabled by open source and free software. What are the characteristics of a lean startup?

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Venture Capitalists, Super Angels and the State of Startup Funding

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a part of an exciting team, building web applications such as social networking, ecommerce, games, sports, contact management, CMS and more.Re. Nearly all have abandoned hope in the "sure thing" and are stepping into what has traditionally been the Angel role of incubating startups. Companies like GrowPublic, Inc.

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Venture Capitalists, Super Angels and the State of Startup Funding

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Nearly all have abandoned hope in the "sure thing" and are stepping into what has traditionally been the Angel role of incubating startups. More and more VCs have deals in their portfolios that have long outlasted their investment value, and more and more VCs are seeking to unload these deals, at a loss, as reverse merger vehicles.

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Why Your Startup's Name Matters

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He currently runs marketing at tech incubator QLabs and previously co-founded travel site Wanderfly. of Web Users Meet Singles on Social Networks [STUDY] Want to Highlight Your New Facebook Pictures? Open Source Lists. Social Media Lists. Social Network Lists. Social Media. Social Good.

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Startup Tools

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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

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VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. Social networking. Social/Sharing. High Quality, and open sourced! Mantis (Open source). Nagios (open source). Panda (Open source). Seed Startups.