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

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if you want to download the deck it’s here on SlideShare ) Why Did The Seed Market Emerge in the First Place? 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). Why Has Seed Investing Declined?

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Want to know why charging $12 / year converts higher than $9.99?

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What is the mix of revenue between ads, subscriptions, digital downloads & ecommerce. In 2005 they realized that this business was going to evaporate over night with the introduction of YouTube. Working with a family member (Evan, the co-founder is his brother)? How did the Introduction of YouTube affect your business?

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

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If you have time check out the video (or download on iTunes – Episode 27 - and listen at the gym or on your commute!). In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 and one of the founders of Oblong, John Underkoffler, was an MIT Medialab PHd.,

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How a bot-fighting test turned into edtech’s most iconic brand, Duolingo

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Luis von Ahn, the inventor of CAPTCHA and reCAPTCHA, and co-founder of Duolingo. So in 2005, he launched reCAPTCHA. The rise of iPads and tablets in classrooms gave permission to founders who believed the future of education was on the internet. Image Credits: Duolingo. A fire was lit.

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Revenue-based financing: The next step for private equity and early-stage investment

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Thomas Rush is founder of Bootstrapp and Head of Investment Platform at ConsenSys Mesh. These findings are summarized below; a full industry-spanning report that defines the overall revenue-based investing market as it stands today is available to download here. Thomas Rush. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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WeLink raises $185M to deliver high-bandwidth wireless internet to the home using 5G

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Ross had been interested in wireless internet since 2005, but the technology was early — and very expensive. “I WeLink’s executives: co-founder and CEO Kevin Ross and COO and President Luke Langford. The company says it offers “Up to 940 Mbps Download/Upload,” although of course, your mileage will vary in reality.

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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. Our chief architect, Ryan Lissack, wanted to store our data in Amazon’s new (at the time) storage product called S3 that enabled us to store all our data in their facility and we’d pay by the MBs uploaded / downloaded.

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