Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%. In 1998 there were around 850 VC funds and by 2000 there were 2,300. By 2000 the total LP commitments had mushroomed to more than $100 billion. The Funding Problem. Today’s Normalization.

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. Users participate by performing tasks, taking surveys or watching advertiser videos. Addressable advertisements are capable of being targeted to the individual household.

Stealth 285

Stealth SEC Advertising Accredited Investor 285

Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

On the IT side of VC investing, we’ve seen countless waves crest and fall… mainframes to minicomputer/workstation, workstation to PC, copper to optical networking, client/server software to cloud, the fabless semiconductor model, magnetic tape to hard drive, etc. they generate $400M in proceeds from that $100M).

Silicon Valley 240

Silicon Valley Carried Interest Cofounder Boston 240

VC Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2011

Israeli startup Blaze Meter , a load testing in the cloud compatible with open source Apache Jmeter, has recently raised an undisclosed round from Yoav Leitersdorf’s YL Ventures. Alon: BlazeMeter is the first testing cloud with a sole focus on load testing, designed to simplify performance and load testing for developers and QA testers.

Cloud 106

Cloud North America EC2 106

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

B ootstrapping can be really hard for some early stage startups, but Israeli startup Enigmai , makes it seem easy. We are thinking about making our platform free to small businesses and support it with advertising (we can get it targeted). Adir : There’s a lot of buzz about cloud computing. You need to control.

Cloud 134

Cloud South America Bootstrapping 134

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

B ootstrapping can be really hard for some early stage startups, but Israeli startup Enigmai , makes it seem easy. We are thinking about making our platform free to small businesses and support it with advertising (we can get it targeted). Adir : There’s a lot of buzz about cloud computing. You need to control.

Cloud 134

Cloud South America Bootstrapping 134

Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Security, Cloud, NoSQL databases, etc. And that’s been reflected in the entrepreneurial community, where entrepreneurs, especially between 2000 and 2008, entrepreneurs really only wanted to do — for the most part wanted to do consumer software, because that’s the only software that they could actually get anybody to adopt.

Software Review 22

Software Review Startup Venture Capital Stock 22