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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

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.

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App is Crap (why Apple is bad for your health)

Both Sides of the Table

I was living in Europe in 2000 when the first WAP phones (Wireless Access Protocol) were introduced. Their company, my company and countless others espoused cloud-based applications. Enter Flash, which gave us a multimedia development environment. We now have a couple of hundred thousand applications developed.

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Bubble Trouble? I Don’t Think So

Ben's Blog

In the great bubble of 1998-2000, the boom in public valuations mirrored the boom in private valuations. The inflation-adjusted data from the last bubble tells the story: In the 3-year period from 1998-2000, venture capital firms raised more than $200 billion, which represented about 0.55% of the national GDP.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter March 2011 Edition

VC Cafe

Broadcom Corporation, a global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications, is acquiring Provigent, an Israeli company which develops system-on-a-chip products that enable wireless system vendors to deliver broadband wireless backhaul systems to network operators.

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Oppose HB 1192 – The “Software Tax”

VC Adventure

Oracle real Application Clusters, Qualys QualysGuard, SAP Business Objects Broadcast Scheduler, SAP Business Objects Crystal Enterprise 8.5, Cloud Computing. Object-oriented development. SAP Business Objects Crystal Enterprise XI, SAP Business Objects Crystal Reports 8.5, Citrix Presentation Server 4.0, Oracle PeopleSoft 8.9,

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In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

online.wsj.com

that did so in 1999 and 2000, according to an analysis for The Wall Street Journal by Jay R. Videogames Reach for the Cloud. Software Development Engineer, Senior-IEB-Commercial Services (795929) Job -. APG - Associate - Application Developer (NON ALADDIN) -. MSN Money Homepage. MSN Money Investing. CyberCoders.