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2010 VC Funding Outlook for Startups – Prepare for Winter (Part 3/3)

Both Sides of the Table

So we loaded up on flat screen TVs, multiple generations of iPods and trips to Hawaii. In the first post in this three part series I described why I believe the VC market froze between September 2008 – April 2009. We spent our future since the equity was artificial. So why the ’09 bounce?

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Startup Map & Trends Analysis – September 2012

Gust

However, the states with the highest monthly increase in percentage terms were South Dakota, Kentucky, and Hawaii, also likely due to their small baselines, but yet demonstrating a potentially interesting trend. Interestingly, two new industries made it into the top ten, Education and Clean Tech, both with double-digit increase rates.

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US Economic Risks (Sept 2010): Impact on Investors & Entrepreneurs

Both Sides of the Table

This has been especially true for angels or seed investors as there is a new thesis that less capital is needed to start Internet companies so more money is being spent at this phase of the funding lifecycle. VCs have also gone back to writing checks because as an industry we can’t be seen as “sitting on the sidelines” for years at a time.

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Twiistup 6 Highlights

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In SoCal we are also leaders in affiliate marketing (Commission Junction), Internet video (Hulu) and bringing local businesses online (ReachLocal). He displayed a deep mastering of the power of the Internet, direct marketing and Twitter to manage his business. We have accomplished much yet have much work to do.

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How SaaS + Mobile has changed our world.

Scalable Startup

But more importantly, the labor of moving software around by humans and physical media and even the Internet has been taken down to almost zero. The way we do things today is very different because of SaaS and the Internet. I can even build server based websites with Drupal and MySQL now on an iPad in a coffee shop.

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Transcript And MP3 Of My $180,000 Website Flipping Presentation

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

I had a lot of fun learning what the internet could do for me. In fact, my first website I can’t show you, because I don’t think we have internet access, but I had a Geocities website in 1999 for a card game I used to play called Magic the Gathering. I was getting more into internet marketing and trying to ramp up my income.

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The Yo-Yo Life of a Tech Entrepreneur – A Cautionary Tale

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Mine started this way … I started my first company in the “go-go years&# of the Internet: 1999. I canceled my first ever extended family trip to Hawaii less than a week before going. We were based in London. a few days before the wheels came off of the market). We were now set to close at $46 million in new capital.