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Seed Stage Firms are Dead, Long Live Micro VCs

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Of course CapEx has been transformed into OpEx via changes in the tech infrastructure layer (open source, virtualization & cloud computing, offshoring, etc.). In the sector of internet-enabled services where a majority of the Micro VC investment has transpired, startups can fundamentally do more with less. That’s no secret.

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Are We Entering 2013 in Crunch-Mode?

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Look back to the reasons why there was a Cambrian explosion of seed funding in the first place – a dramatic reduction in the initial capital requirements to launch a new company because of cloud hosting infrastructure, social graph distribution platforms, open source and low-cost development tools/methods, etc.