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OCTOBER 12, 2010

ELC is known for its cloud computing applications development, and Ruby On Rails development. Pourzanjani founded PriceGrabber and sold it to Experian in 2005 for $485M, and is among one of the active angel investors in Los Angeles. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. He currently heads up BestCovery.com.

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MARCH 6, 2015

Let me take you back just 10 years ago to 2005 in Silicon Valley where I returned after 11 years of living in Europe. But back in 2005 there were a few people who spotted the trend before others and one of the true pioneers was (and continues to be) Jeff Clavier who founded SoftTech VC. It is, of course, a very recent phenomenon.

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JUNE 28, 2011

These two trends had a major impact on the computing industry from 2000-2005 but the effects weren’t yet felt by the VC industry. The Emergence of “Open Cloud&# Infrastructure. The biggest change in the software industry beyond open-source was “open cloud.&#.

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MAY 23, 2012

Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%. And in a market with too much capacity (too many startups) the leverage was completely in the hand of buyers at M&A activity finally picked up. Today’s Normalization.

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