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ELC Technologies Acquired By Pourzanjani, Rahmat

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ELC is known for its cloud computing applications development, and Ruby On Rails development. Rahmat was CEO of Tom's Hardware, which he sold to BestofMedia in 2007. As part of the acquisition, ELC founder Siegel joins venture capital firm Accel Partners in London, as a venture partner. READ MORE>>.

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Interview: Thorsten von Eicken of RightScale

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Or would you like me to sell you a story on how cloud computing is green because these large datacenters are more energy efficient than the same number of computers run in ad-hoc ways? Let me answer ‘why computing needs RightScale.’ Computing is going the way of the electric grid. It’s contagious!”. 5) It is 2015.

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Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? Every Successful Entrepreneur Should Expect The “Million Dollar Question”

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A similar experience occurred at a cloud computing company where I acted as an addVisor. The company was approached by a Big Dumb Company (BDC) who made a nominal acquisition offer within months of the company’s founding. Long Term Value – Look at your adVenture objectively, in the same manner as a Venture Capitalist (VC).

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UnVenture Capitalists: Seek Investors Aligned With Your Interests, Not Their Egos

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Entrepreneurs in search of startup capital are well served to seek an UnVentureCapitalist (UnVC), an investor who understands and appreciates the unique benefits of capital efficiency. Shortly thereafter, the company received an acquisition offer which would have put over $15 million into the Founder’s pocket.

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Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? Every Successful Entrepreneur Should Expect The “Million Dollar Question”

InfoChachkie

A similar experience occurred at a cloud computing company where I acted as an addVisor. The company was approached by a Big Dumb Company (BDC) who made a nominal acquisition offer within months of the company’s founding. Long Term Value – Look at your adVenture objectively, in the same manner as a Venture Capitalist (VC).

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UnVenture Capitalists: Seek Investors Aligned With Your Interests, Not Their Egos

InfoChachkie

Entrepreneurs in search of startup capital are well served to seek an UnVentureCapitalist (UnVC), an investor who understands and appreciates the unique benefits of capital efficiency. Shortly thereafter, the company received an acquisition offer which would have put over $15 million into the Founder’s pocket.

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RingRevenue Creates A New Performance Marketing Revenue Channel

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Messenger : Rob Duva , Co-Founder, COO RingRevenue, prior Director of Customer Acquisition, CallWave. At CallWave, Colin was CTO, Jason was CFO and I was in charge of product marketing and customer acquisition. When we raised our Series A, we put a lot of effort into meeting with VC’s to find the right fit for us.

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