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

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Between 1999–2005 the costs went down by 90% and between 2005–2010 they went down a further 90%. million and my A Round in 2005 was only $500,000 (and that’s all I ever raised). The reality is that as a result of two major trends the costs of starting a technology startup went down massively.

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Is WebEx “Dead Man Walking?”

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billion (plus an earn out that could have totalled $4 billion but didn’t in the end) in 2005 before selling 65% of the company in 2009 for $1.9 I first noticed it while filming an episode of This Week in Cloud Computing. he was showing us what was on his computer). I’m writing this post from Shanghai.

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Data is the Next Major Layer of the Cloud & A Major Victory for Startups

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When I started my second company in 2005 we decided to do everything differently. During my second startup we never considered using cloud computer processing for our real-time processes but we did run some batch processes there. By then the open-source movement had really developed. Processing.

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