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The Changing Venture Landscape

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I’m over-paying for every check I write into the VC ecosystem and valuations are being pushed up to absurd levels and many of these valuations and companies won’t hold in the long term. The market today would barely be recognizable by a time traveler from 2011. The most connected and high-potential founders start with wads of cash.

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Contatta Funding Puts ACT!, Goldmine Founders Head To Head Again

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However, fast forward to today, and the two players behind the two biggest CRM software products of the desktop PC age--Pat Sullivan and Jon Ferrara--are head to head again, as Sullivan''s new startup, Contatta , announced a funding round for its launch of a new, customer relationship management software product. READ MORE>>.

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Startups Are A Remix

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So they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. Everything Is A Remix – Including Your Startup. Nobody starts out original. Like music, movies and blog entries, startups are a remix of that which came before. emphasis added).

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How Zadara Is Putting The Enterprise In The Storage Cloud

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While Internet and startup companies have widely adopted the cloud for both their computing and storage needs, enterprise companies are only now starting to widely adopt cloud services. Five minutes later, we had them up and running, and he used those for three weeks, eventually deleting the test one and keeping the production SAN.

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Why Most of Your Assumptions About Phone Calls are Wrong

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The three largest webmail services had over 1 billion global users at the end of 2011. Of course that website isn’t completely up to date but it’s a great resource for seeing the overall picture. But let me start with some data. And while this data is from mid-2011 I can assure you that data is not going down.

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Meet Launchpad LA’s Graduating Startups

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Over 500 startups applied last quarter to Launchpad LA’s accelerator, but only eight were chosen. Meet the Graduates: · Connectifier, which connects recruiters to potential job candidates, consists of 4 ex-Google employees and local angel investor, Terrence Yang, has dubbed Connectifier one of the best startups of 2012.

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How ChowNow Delivers Mobile Orders For Restaurants, With Christopher Webb

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It's a huge development task to develop your own mobile application, connect into Facebook, and create an online ordering system--unless you use the software from ChowNow (www.chownow.com), one of the newest startups to get funding here in Los Angeles. Christopher Webb: ChowNow is a startup here in LA, and it's a few years old.

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