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The Changing Structure of the VC Industry

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I highlighted how these tectonic technical shifts have altered the VC industry in this post: How Open-Source & Horizontal Computing Spawned the Micro VC Market. Unprecedented revenue growth + companies staying private longer =. 2007 was the watershed year. More opportunities than ever in history for venture capital firms =.

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The End of the Web? Don’t Bet on It. Here’s Why

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This meant that small teams could create games and make real revenue whereas on the Web this was much harder because you either had to build (or license) your own billing infrastructure, convince consumers to get out their credit cards (which they don’t like to do) or you had to sell enough advertising to make it worth offering your product.

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I Just Invested in @Burstly, a Mobile Ad Management Company

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The next major entrant is the Android platform, an open source mobile operating system that has led to the introduction of several handsets that are based on this OS and many more to be released over time. it provides complete transparency in how much advertisers are paying, how much Burstly takes and what your revenue is.

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Why Venture Capital is So Much More Compelling Now

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The costs to start are much lower than ever (90% reduction in infrastructure costs to start a company through open source & web services) and large companies being created in many geographies. Time to massive revenue is the most compressed in history due to scale and Deflationary Economics.

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What’s Really Going on in the VC Industry? What Does it Mean for Startups?

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You don’t need to buy expensive software – there are free open source solutions for nearly everything. Revenue must come from a primary source (as opposed to advertising or other third party sources). You don’t need to buy hardware – there’s Amazon AWS. Team must be purely technical.

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You Need to Win the Battle for Share of Mind

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Are we seeing a time in which pre-revenue companies are more valuable than our offline institutional brands? The era of cheap cloud computing plus open-source software plus digital natives unleashed upon society is creating some truly amazing products that will challenge the way we do business and the way we live our lives.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

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Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%. The opportunity to transact at the point of purchase increases the sheer number of revenue opportunities. Web businesses can now grow revenue before they can even afford sales people.