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VC Seed Funding is Dead, Long Live VC Seed Funding!

Both Sides of the Table

A few years ago it became fashionable for large VC’s to do seed funding. With open source software (LAMP stack) and cloud computing infrastructure it just wasn’t that expensive to get your company going and founders just wanted to raise less money. What gives? Am I a hypocrite?

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Which language should my startup use?

www.reincubate.com

These are Java (from Sun),NET (from Microsoft), and three Open Source options: PHP, Python and Ruby. Its a powerful object oriented language, and is effectively Open Source. Java can be used in both Microsoft or Open Source environments. PHP is a widely-used Open Source web scripting language.

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How to Start a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

But this is just the kindthat tends to be open source: operating systems, programminglanguages, editors, and so on. So if youre developing technologyfor money, youre probably not going to be developing it for peoplelike you. Usually you get seed money from individual rich people called"angels."

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

This is the first post in what’s going to be a series of blogs on how to go from nothing – no connections, no team, no money and no knowledge of how the startup industry really works – to operating a growing business. I’m taking a 52 week course in how to start up, run, operate, and achieve self employment.