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Zhongguancun in Beijing – China’s Silicon Valley (Part 4 of 5)

Steve Blank

In Beijing we hadn’t seen air so badly polluted since we had been in Agra in India in the winter where I swear there was a day you could wave your hand in front of you and see traces of it in the air (and their excuse was they burn dung for heat.). Several VC’s mentioned that there’s a funding gap for seed stage investments.

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Zhongguancun in Beijing – China’s Silicon Valley (Part 4 of 5)

Steve Blank

In Beijing we hadn’t seen air so badly polluted since we had been in Agra in India in the winter where I swear there was a day you could wave your hand in front of you and see traces of it in the air (and their excuse was they burn dung for heat.). Several VC’s mentioned that there’s a funding gap for seed stage investments.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Nonprofits And For-profits

ReadWriteStart

He talked about everything from raising funding for pre-seed entrepreneurs to get them to the seed stage, crowd funding, social media marketing and open source. I reminded him that commercial open source is a classic freemium model, where the free software comes with paid customer support and training.

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You Can’t Spell Hardware without H-A-R-D

K9 Ventures

Computing and software came a few years later for me as access to computers wasn’t as easy or affordable. Software is awesome as it gives you instant gratification. It requires a higher level of discipline than software does. And 2 seed stage companies that haven’t launched yet. Hardware is different.

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Why Launching a Startup Is More Expensive Than You Think

mashable.com

After all, high-quality open source software is free, the cloud makes computer power far less expensive, and anyone with an Internet connection can learn Ruby and CSS. In fact, it’s barely even the beginning for most companies in their seed stage financings. And that still doesn’t guarantee they’re going to fund your vision.

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Cloud Europe 2017: The Factory is Cranking

Cracking the Code

You can see the full presentation here - Europe is fertile ground for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) companies, as shown in our comprehensive look at SaaS last year, “SaaS Wars – Europe Awakens”. Europe and India are growing particularly quickly, and investment more than doubled from 2015, while the US is up 20%. in the US, $2.6B

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Finding a Technical Partner for Your Startup

rapidrollout.wordpress.com

First Things First: Your Requirements You seem to feel that your project isn’t ready to move forward without a software developer (a “programmer&# , as you say). Or you can find seed-stage investors who will give you the money to hire a developer. Might be cost effective if you outsource your project to India Inc. @$10-15/hour.