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March Capital Partners Backs E8 Security

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Santa Monica-based March Capital Partners , the venture capital investment firm led by Jim Armstrong, Sumant Mandal, Gregory Milkin, and Jamie Montgomery, is the lead investor in a new cyber security startup, E8 Security. in a Series A funding, for its cyber security analytics software, used to help detect cyber attacks. READ MORE>>.

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PR Is A Passion Play That Cannot Be Outsourced

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This is the approach many startups take when they communicate their story to the market. In addition to passion, any function at your startup that involves iterative learning and/or close proximity to your customers should be performed in house. You Are Not Really The Client - A PR agency’s true allegiance is not to you.

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Interview with Justin and Dawn Newton, Netki

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I spent about 20 years in that space, starting with some East Coast companies, including Digital Gateway Systems, which you might was where one of our users first posted the Scientology documents to the Internet, and we ended up getting sued by the Scientologists to protect our user. Dawn, what was your background?

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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. Old School Software Distribution Is Doomed. On December 10th, 1993, a small group of software developers in Shreveport, Louisiana changed the software world.

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

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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. He was wrong.

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Roping in the Legal Eagles

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Johnnie Cochran was an effective, albeit smarmy, defense lawyer who would say or do anything to defend his clients (anyone up for a glass of OJ?). Yet, despite his exceptional courtroom theatrics, you would be foolhardy to hire good old Johnnie to review your software cross-licensing agreement. free weekly Infochachkie articles!

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VC Confidence Holds Steady in Quarterly Survey, But Reasons Change

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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.