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On Human Capital & Venture Capital

thebarefootvc

It is the human capital involved, both internally with company teams and externally with advisors, boards and investors, that is going to differentiate which startups survive and become the disruptive businesses of tomorrow. Money is fast turning into a commodity.

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Ecosystem + Incubator = Startup "Ecobator" NestGSV

ReadWriteStart

Like an accelerator or incubator program, NestGSV gives its resident startups office space, advice and lots of other amenities (even a beach volleyball court) at its Redwood City, California, campus near Silicon Valley. Currently 22 are residing there, paying $550 a month for a desk with 300Mbps of Internet bandwidth.

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Ecosystem + Incubator = Startup "Ecobator" NestGSV

ReadWriteStart

Like an accelerator or incubator program, NestGSV gives its resident startups office space, advice and lots of other amenities (even a beach volleyball court) at its Redwood City, California, campus near Silicon Valley. Currently 22 are residing there, paying $550 a month for a desk with 300Mbps of Internet bandwidth.

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Beware The Consultant

infochachkie.com

One startup I joined was very proud that they had been ‘accepted’ as a client by a prestigious Silicon Valley law firm whose name rhymes with a type of pasta (they are lawyers after all, so I have to be careful here…). Who are the best startup consultants in Silicon Valley?… Rhymes with a Type of Pasta.

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Ecosystem + Incubator = Startup “Ecobator” NestGSV

ReadWriteStart

Like an accelerator or incubator program, NestGSV gives its resident startups office space, advice and lots of other amenities (even a beach volleyball court) at its Redwood City, California, campus near Silicon Valley. Currently 22 are residing there, paying $550 a month for a desk with 300Mbps of Internet bandwidth.

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Urbanization of Startups ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

I spent some time with some startups in San Francisco proper, as opposed to the heart of Silicon Valley (see Note 1). “Silicon Valley” (see Note 2) is hardly alone in this urbanization of startups trend. April 13, 2012. I was back in the SF Bay Area last week for a bit of work and a bit of fun.

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Evolution of a Founder: Lessons I have learned

om.co

called The Rise of a Insta-Company, which theorized that open source, cheap bandwidth and increasingly falling cost of infrastructure would result in companies being built at a dramatically lower cost than ever before. I had been writing GigaOM (the blog) since December 2001, but in 2003, I started working on a piece for Business 2.0

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