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Why Has Seed Investing Declined? And What Does this Mean for the Future?

Both Sides of the Table

why the hell has seed financing declined so much in the past 3 years?? What’s astonishing and few other than those who lived it as startups (I launched my second startup in this era) realize is how profound of an impact that rise of Amazon AWS (S3 & EC2) had on the startup market. The “A Round” of my startup in 1999 was $16.5

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The bar is higher

This is going to be BIG.

From a technology perspective, so many parts of the stack have been made easier--from spinning up servers on EC2 and S3, to getting hosted Rails infrastructure on Heroku. There are incubators to help you out on the financing side, too. The success of YCombinator and Techstars has spawned countless new incubators.

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How To Bootstrap Your Startup

www.readwriteweb.com

Or the founders have taken on a small amount of seed financing, just enough to get them into the market. If our aim was to raise financing and employ these people directly, we’d have burnt through $5-7 million before launch. Jackie: I would recommend instead Amazons EC2 and S3 platforms.

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FinTech Innovation Lab Launch Event – June 2, 2011

David Teten

Very enthusiastic about the potential for the NY tech ecosystem, leveraging our strength in finance. Packaged platforms (Force.com/EC2/Azure) are much more likely to succeed than a pure infrastructure play. After Goldman, ran startup Gadgetoff, which brought together inventors and entrepreneurs. Introductory remarks. Maria Gotsch.

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CEO Interview with BlazeMeter, Self-Served Load Testing in the Cloud

VC Cafe

While traditional cloud testing vendors target the enterprise market, BlazeMeter plans to revolutionize the load testing market in the same way AWS/EC2 disrupted the virtualization market by introducing a self-service low cost cloud and Heroku pioneered the first Ruby cloud. Blazemeter real time reports and monitoring.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

Managewith.us - Collaborative Task Manager Mavenlink - manage project communications, documents, schedules, budgets, payments Industrial Logic – Agile eLearning Misc Office Help Google Apps – cloud mail server, calendar, docs, etc.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Amazon EC2. easy business finance software. YCombinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents. Y Combinator : They provide a series of AA equity financing documents that are written with simpler words so start-up companies will have an easier starting point. Startup Threads. Videos/presentations. SlideShare. Haiku Deck.