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Here’s Why a Booming Tech Market May Fool You into Thinking You’re Successful

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Since 2009 we’ve been in an unequivocal bull market. You’d imagine that companies selling tons of shelfware would quickly meet their deserved fate in the market, yet the spin around a category of software can fool buyers into thinking they “must have this product to compete.”

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An Inside Scoop on the Funding Environment and What it Might Mean for You

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We started planning our fund raising as much as 14 months ago. Invoca had grown steadily and consistently since 2009 and by 2015 SaaS companies with scale had become hot – trading at a median of 7.3x Did he want to see whether a strategic buyers made sense in the next couple of years? September started easily enough.

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

Kathy Sierra at Business of Software 2009 - Business of Software Blog , May 4, 2010 "In the old days, getting customers was easy. Much of this makes sense, inasmuch as it is strategic for them to dominate or commoditize each layer that stands between human beings and online ads. You could just outspend. Lots to learn from him.

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The social Web in 2010: The emerging standards and technologies to watch

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All of these approaches made major headway in 2009 and are poised for mainstream use in 2010. The top 10 posts of 2009 Enterprise 2.0: The 2009 year in review What will power next-generation businesses? Dion Hinchcliffe Get Enterprise Web 2.0 Forrester Research Googling Google GreenTech Pastures Hardware 2.0

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