{"id":732065,"date":"2010-05-24T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gigaom.wordpress.com\/?p=121748"},"modified":"2010-05-24T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T17:00:00","slug":"how-lean-startups-are-changing-the-vc-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/732065","title":{"rendered":"How Lean Startups Are Changing the VC Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;\">\u201cAn increasing trend is big funds like ours banding with angels and writing small checks just to try and get a foot in the door.&#8221; Geoff Yang, Redpoint Ventures, on how lean startups are changing the dynamics of the VC industry. (<a href=\"http:\/\/preview.bloomberg.com\/news\/2010-05-24\/technology-startups-go-lean-as-costs-of-using-software-storage-plummet.html\">Bloomberg<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?w=780\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>\n\t<a href='http:\/\/atimi.com\/'><br \/>\n\t\t<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/a.gigaom.com\/feed-injector\/img\/atimi-2010-05-24.jpg?w=780\" alt='Atimi: Software Development, On Time. Learn more about Atimi &raquo;' border='0' \/><br \/>\n\t<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=M-wieWcEn-4:0GsiFstwT_8:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=M-wieWcEn-4:0GsiFstwT_8:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?i=M-wieWcEn-4:0GsiFstwT_8:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=M-wieWcEn-4:0GsiFstwT_8:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?i=M-wieWcEn-4:0GsiFstwT_8:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=M-wieWcEn-4:0GsiFstwT_8:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=M-wieWcEn-4:0GsiFstwT_8:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?i=M-wieWcEn-4:0GsiFstwT_8:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/OmMalik\/~4\/M-wieWcEn-4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAn increasing trend is big funds like ours banding with angels and writing small checks just to try and get a foot in the door.&#8221; Geoff Yang, Redpoint Ventures, on how lean startups are changing the dynamics of the VC industry. (Bloomberg)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":681,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-732065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-34rv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/681"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=732065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}