Venturing Past The Recession at the Atlanta Botanical Gardens

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Why smaller seed rounds make sense and how to use this to your advantage.

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A short presentation I did during an event at the Atlanta Botanical Garden.

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Why smaller seed

rounds make sense

and how to use this

to your advantage.

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Big money

is getting more scarce.

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Development costs

have dropped.

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Storage Costs1980 $19,300.00/GB

1990 $9,000.00/GB

2000 $17.00/GB

2004 $1.50/GB

NOW

$0.10/GB or

$0.15/GB per month

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Do more

with less.

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Spend money

on the important.

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Don’t spend money

on the unimportant.

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Avoid money that

will kill your startup.

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Just remember,profitability = freedom