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Vitesse CFO To Retire

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Yonker has been at the firm since 2006, and was in charge of the major restructuring of the firm's finances after the company was caught up in stock options dating issues. Vitesse also announced its quarterly results Thursday, saying it had net loss of $9.0M That compared with a net loss of $34.0M on revenues of $36.9

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Maximize Your Exit By Not Selling Your Company

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However, in many cases, acquiring companies behave less rationally than Mr. Jackson. Citrix politely approached us, told us they had an interest in acquiring our company and then asked us, “How much?”. Our response was that there was no “price” as our company was not for sale. VC Funding Alternative.

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Are Business Plans Still Necessary?

Both Sides of the Table

I remember going to an Under the Radar conference in 2006 in the heat of the Web 2.0 Ajax was the new buzzword and many companies went overboard. and the subsequent acquisition sprees of companies like Google, Yahoo! and the subsequent acquisition sprees of companies like Google, Yahoo!, 66% Net Operating Margins?

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

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TWTFelipe and I ended up speaking for nearly 30 minutes and we talked mostly about why his company was based in Canada and not the US. In 2005 he was graduated and took a job in South Carolina working for technology company while he started his own web design company on the side. So he decided to start his company in Canada.

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Interview: Thorsten von Eicken of RightScale

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I thought the analogy was preposterous back in 2006-2007 but it has become obvious. In the summer of 2006 over a cup of Peet’s Coffee, you told me about this new thing called “cloud computing” and that you were trying to come up with a creative way to incorporate it into the curriculum of your upcoming UCSB Computer Science class.

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Why Google Fiber? Moat-widening Endeavor & Future of Computing.

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Apple, Google, Facebook, and Amazon are striving to be the super-mega technology company that owns every layer of the value chain. The first half of the value chain is far more capital-intensive, so they weren’t able to move into those layers until the company grew and matured. This post will focus on the former.

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When Does Venture Debt Make Sense For Your Startup? - The Other Green Money

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The nature of the company’s business model requires it to fund certain costs before it is paid by its customers. Thus, even though the company is cash flow positive, its growth is constrained by the amount of payables it can fund. During the summer of 2006, I joined RedMojo as an Advisor. Enter venture debt.

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