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The Changing Structure of the VC Industry

Both Sides of the Table

When you think about the trends of faster-growing startups due to social networking, credit card enable and mobile first consumers – the reality is that many startups are becoming very large financially before needing to go public. 2007 was the watershed year. From a technology perspective our journey is nowhere near over.

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Best Tips For Working Virtually – Setting Up Your Business To Work From Home

YoungUpstarts

If your company provides tech support utilize it. If major companies send everyone home to work, your favorite tech support guy is going to be extremely busy. Your computer from 2007 might not cut it today so if you have to get a new one. A flash drive, cloud storage such as Dropbox, and also Carbonite are good recommendations.

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How is the VC Asset Class Doing?

View from Seed

If you aren’t familiar with these metrics, I recommend reading the original post to get a sense of the numbers that I’ll be reviewing here. One of the things I pointed out in my prior post was that even though the 2007 vintage was 10 years old, the vast majority of the value was still unrealized. nearly the same as 2007.

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Strategy Roundtable: 5 Cloud Computing Opportunities for Entrepreneurs

ReadWriteStart

s roundtable, I started with a presentation on blue sky opportunities in cloud computing based on our Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing (TLCC) research. I took the audience through five cloud-based business ideas, discussed why they are relevant and pointed them to the sources I derived those ideas from.

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First Mover Fallacy

Agile VC

Dropbox (cloud storage). Work Out Early Kinks - Dropbox wasn’t the first consumer cloud storage service. Companies like xDrive and others let you upload and retrieve files from the web nearly a decade earlier, and there were others like Carbonite that created hybrid local/cloud storage solutions.

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Cracking The Code: Best Venture and Technology Podcasts for 2007

Cracking the Code

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Best Venture and Technology Podcasts for 2007. I make the most of this time by listening to my favorite tech and venture podcasts. Cloud Computing. (1). In search of Europe's next tech stars.

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Cracking The Code: In search of Europe's next tech stars.

Cracking the Code

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. In search of Europes next tech stars. Cloud Computing. (1). In search of Europe's next tech stars. Unveilling of the Bessemer's 10 laws of Cloud Comp. Churchill Club 2008 Top 10 Tech Trends.