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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

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In 1998 there were around 850 VC funds and by 2000 there were 2,300. By 2000 the total LP commitments had mushroomed to more than $100 billion. So of course returns from 2000-2010 were subpar on average for the industry. In 1998 it was 150 million, 1999 250 million and by 2000 it had crossed 350 million.

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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

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These two trends had a major impact on the computing industry from 2000-2005 but the effects weren’t yet felt by the VC industry. Amazon allowed 22-year-old tech developers to launch companies without even raising capital. The Emergence of “Open Cloud&# Infrastructure. Spawning of Micro VCs. I’m not a shareholder.

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This Week in VC with Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital

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In the media NYC is “hot” right now yet having just spent 6 days in NY I heard many similar stories as I get in LA: not enough VC and hard to get great tech resources. We both felt that the critical reasoning skills and writing skills were critical to our career development. Social network app developer and ad network.

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This Week in VC with Om Malik & Paul Jozefak

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Online social game network; make their own games (FarmVille, Mafia Wars, FrontierVille) in addition to allowing third-party developers to access network. Structured data asset creation works in on demand in real-time across multiple data sets Including web, e-mail, internal databases, documents, and media. Read more: PaidContent.

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Incredibuild gets $140M to speed up games and other software development with distributed processing tech

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Incredibuild , an Israeli startup that provides a way for organizations to implement distributed computing architecture to speed up the processing needed for intensive tasks like software development by tapping into a company’s network of idle CPUs, has picked up $140 million in funding.

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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

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StackOverflow is a free Q&A site for software developers, blending functionality from wikis, blogs, forums, and social voting (similar to Digg/Reddit); 7.1mm unique visitors per month; new funds will be used to build out engineering team and build out product. . Invidi is based in New York and founded in 2000. OTHER DEALS.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2

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I don’t believe that search is the only answer in 2010 as it was in 2000. They help speed up the network by pushing the highly viewed and large media files to the “edge&# of the network (e.g. On the first point – think of Steven Blank’s customer development but for physical products.