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

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The reality is that as a result of two major trends the costs of starting a technology startup went down massively. So What Impact Did the Drop in Tech Founding Costs Have on VC? As a result of the IPO window shifting we saw a massive inflow of public-market capital into the latest stages of venture.

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What Mattered in 2010: Jim Andelman, Rincon Ventures

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All this week, we are sharing the opinions of some of the top influencers in Southern California's high tech community. We asked the same five questions of a variety of top technology entrepreneurs, investors, and others, to hear what they're thinking about, and are sharing it here over the next two weeks. 1) Mobile web.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

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I have been close to the tech & startup sectors for more than 20 years and I can’t think of a period in which I felt more optimistic about the innovation and value creation I see in front of us. Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%.

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Interview with Simon Anderson, DreamHost

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Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based web hosting and cloud computing provider DreamHost (www.dreamhost.com) raised a big, $30M funding round for the company--the first in the company''s long history. Simon Anderson: DreamHost offers a web hosting, and now, cloud computing platform and storage.

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Interview with Kian Saneii, Independa

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One of the areas that startups and healthcare investors have turned their attention to in recent years, is leveraging the many advances in technology--wireless, smart phones, software, and more--and applying those to the health area. That division was focused on implementing core technology for the wireless industry.

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Ten Startup Tips From Amazon Founder, Jeff Bezos

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I review these tenets with my entrepreneurial students at UC Santa Barbara at the beginning of each quarter to reinforce many of the key topics we will cover in the following weeks. He was not an expert in technology, inventory logistics or publishing. Growth Happens In Bounds And Leaps — Of Faith.

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Hyper-Speed, Hyper-Scale Advertising Automation Requires Hyper-Fast Hardware

Frank Addante

At Rubicon Project, we’ve engineered the world’s first real-time cloud computing technology. Today, due to the explosion of possible bidders and types of automated decisions/buys, there are over 100+ DSPs (i.e. It’s currently comprised of 25,000 + CPUs and capable of moving 45 gigabits of data per second.