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Staccato Merges With Artimi, Gets $20M

socalTECH

According to Staccato, the funding came from Allegis Capital, Amadeus Capital Partners, Bay Partners, Charles River Ventures, Formative Ventures, Intel Capital, Interwest Partners, Khosla Ventures, Noble Venture Finance, Oak Investment Partners and Vision Capital. Artimi is a developer of ultra-wideband and wireless USB software and hardware.

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PR Is A Passion Play That Cannot Be Outsourced

InfoChachkie

This is the approach many startups take when they communicate their story to the market. You Are Not Really The Client - A PR agency’s true allegiance is not to you. An in-house PR person is not hampered by such media allegiances and will thus launch an aggressive campaign to ensure that your story is heard. Sound crazy?

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What Entrepreneurs Can Learn From The Grateful Dead

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Such remote devotees were motivated to make occasional visits to ballparks, trips that they otherwise would never have made had radio not bolstered their allegiance. Conventional Wisdom dictated that the proliferation of unauthorized recordings would supplant the market for concert tickets and commercial releases.

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Conforming To Your Customers’ Realities: Your Stakeholders’ Perceptions Are Your Reality

InfoChachkie

He also spearheaded a number of fundamental software breakthroughs, including creating the basic hardware / software architecture which resulted in the creation of the third-party personal computer (PC) software industry. Designed CD-ROM filing system and created Universal Software Bus.

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Interview with Justin and Dawn Newton, Netki

socalTECH

I was SVP of Technology, and Dawn ran support and operations, and later billing and marketing. It was a regional ISP, and got bough tout by Allegiance Telecom. I also had worked earlier at Microcom, which was a big modem manufacturer in the day, building telecommunications software.

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The State of Cybersecurity Insurance Today

Xconomy

For scores of insurance companies cashing in on the booming corporate cybersecurity insurance market, it’s a great opportunity. No surprise, then, that cybersecurity insurance policy premiums are approaching $2.75 billion a year. Some experts believe this figure will grow to roughly $20 billion by 2025.

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VC Confidence Holds Steady in Quarterly Survey, But Reasons Change

Xconomy

In a survey of 29 Silicon Valley venture capitalists in December, the VCs mulled whether President-elect Donald Trump would buoy up their investment prospects with lower corporate taxes and government regulations, or worsen conditions by heightening global political instability and raising the risk of a major military conflict or economic downturn.