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Venture Money in Open Source

Posted by samzenpus on from the money-fixes-everything dept.

prostoalex writes "Interesting statistics from VentureOne and New York Times on open source venture capital investments: "In 1999 and 2000, according to VentureOne, venture capitalists invested $714 million in 71 open-source companies." Even more interesting stats: "Most of those projects collapsed." The article talks about both successes and failures: Red Hat, TurboLinux, JBoss."

3 of 135 comments (clear)

  1. Terrible article by HermanAB · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    not worth reading...

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    Oh well, what the hell...
  2. All this money.... by demondawn · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    and how about America invest in educating our youth at the primary, secondary, and post-secondary levels, all of which are either horribly underfunded or horribly expensive? I guess the ROI isn't good enough, eh?

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    Going back to school for entry-level jobs?
  3. Re:$714 million in 71 open-source companies. by atezun · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    to the MAXX

    Leave out the last X, it makes you seem like a pretentious asshole. ;)