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DECEMBER 11, 2022

In those years I learned to properly build product, price products, sell products and serve customers. Raising capital remained difficult but possible and valuations were tied to underlying performance metrics and everybody accepted the the ultimate exit — whether through M&A or IPO — would also be based on some level of rational pricing.

Venture Capital 466

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OCTOBER 17, 2009

With open source software (LAMP stack) and cloud computing infrastructure it just wasn’t that expensive to get your company going and founders just wanted to raise less money. Entrepreneurs want less cash because they want to control dilution and preserve exit options at lower prices. What exactly is seed funding anymore?

Seed Funding 283

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JUNE 28, 2011

It was driven by the introduction of open-source software, most notably what was called the LAMP stack. That said, Amazon – through AWS – even without strong competition is as wonderful an experience as Amazon the eCommerce retailer feels to you as an online shopper. Open-Source Software & Horizontal Computing.

Venture Capital 334

Venture Capital Software Capital Startup 334

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

Even the most conservative companies began adopting the open-source LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) to dynamically create and maintain their websites. Pricing – Amazon’s pricing of the infrastructure that allows third parties to build their own private clouds and the old VMware/EMC/Cisco stack is cost prohibitive.

IBM 100

IBM IBM Networking Software 100