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JUNE 22, 2011

And this is happening in mezzanine (pre-IPO) deals as well. Or Salesforce.com who rose to prominence in this same period where they were ramping up PR and shouting from mountain tops when everybody else in the market was mute. And post IPO deals, although these tend to correct more quickly. Why does all this matter?

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JUNE 29, 2011

Yesterday I wrote Part 1 of the series on the changes to the software industry over the past decade that has led to changes in the venture capital industry itself. If you don’t want to read that post, the summary is: Open source computing drove computing costs down 90%, which spurred innovation in technology.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Surprising Insights From HubSpot’s $35M Mezzanine Round | ON Startups – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. With all the opinions floating around today, don’t forget to give it 5 minutes – [link].

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Researchers polled experts in lending, mezzanine capital, private equity, venture capital and private businesses themselves. And investors said they intend to invest more in cleantech than software going forward. The cost of money is steep, and only works in certain verticals, of which software is NOT one. Think Again.

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