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Shotgun Software Acquired By Autodesk

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Los Angeles-based Shotgun Software , a developer of cloud-based production tracking, review, and asset management software for the film, television and games industries, has been acquired by Autodesk , the two said Wednesday. Shotgun--which was founded in 2006--was co-founded by Don Parker and Isaac Reuben. READ MORE>>.

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11 Small Business Grants and Loans to Apply For in 2024

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FedEx Small Business Grant For: Small businesses Amount: Up to $50,000 Grantor: FedEx FedEx's Small Business Grant is a grant contest run by delivery company FedEx. Since 2006, NASE has handed out almost $1,000,000 through the program. Create a membership here Deadline: Applications are reviewed quarterly 3.

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Praying to the God of Valuation

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There were startups and a software industry but barely. I started my first company in 1999 and was admittedly swept up in all of this: Magazine covers, fancy conferences, artificial valuations and easy money. Between 2006–2008 I sold both companies that I had started and became a VC. There was no money train. It was 1991.

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For Many New Ventures, Location Is The Key To Success

Startup Professionals Musings

Maxwell Wessel, in a classic article in the Harvard Business Review on this subject, points out the exception successes of Zappos in Las Vegas, Sendgrid’s massive growth in Colorado, and RightNow’s $1.5 Today, Silicon Valley is the consumer and enterprise software capital of the world. Energy is still the domain of Houston and Dubai.

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13 Ecosystem Builders That Are Boosting Startup Growth

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The barriers to entry when it comes to launching a company require less tension and a lot less capital. In 2006, a passion to help startups grew into Tech Cocktail , a company whose mission was to showcased burgeoning companies in bars around the country.

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How TVC Aims At Acquisitions, Not IPOs, with Jeb Spencer

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We thought it might be interesting to talk with one of the fund's managing directors, Jeb Spencer about the fund's success in technology investments, plus how it managed to raise another fund in this kind of environment, plus its unique goal of getting companies to an acquisition--and not an IPO.

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5 Tips to Becoming a More Customer Centric Organization

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The world has changed much since I started my first company in 1999. Tim encouraged us to set up a blog and start talking openly about what we were doing as a company and inviting comments. This was 2006 and we were now working on our second company. My second company, Koral, was designed to be as simple as possible.