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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

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Many observers of the venture capital industry have questioned whether its best days are behind it. Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. This article originally ran on PEHub.

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The OIX Names Laurence Sotsky As CEO

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Sotsky was most recently head of venture-backed, mobile application development startup Hopscotch. Brett Markinson is Chairman of The OIX board of directors and Managing Director of Innovent Capital. According to The OIX, Sotsky was selected after an extensive search in Los Angeles.

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The OIX Names Laurece Sotsky As CEO

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Sotsky was most recently head of venture-backed, mobile application development startup Hopscotch. Brett Markinson is Chairman of The OIX board of directors and Managing Director of Innovent Capital. According to The OIX, Sotsky was selected after an extensive search in Los Angeles.

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Pragma is a back-end toolkit for gaming companies, so game developers can focus on games

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Well, now those development studios can turn to Pragma , which is building the back-end toolkit for gaming companies so their developers can focus on what they do best — making games. In the game industry, a game can stay in beta for years as developers work out the kinks. The company raised $4.2

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Nirvanix Adds Nasuni

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San Diego-based cloud storage provider Nirvanix has added a new customer of the firm's storage service, Nasuni , a Massachusetts startup providing virtual file server software. Nasuni said it is using Nirvanix to provide its customers with unlimited cloud capacity. READ MORE>>.

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Why Hopscotch Is Behind Your Favorite Mobile Sports App, with Laurence Sotsky

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We're now the biggest provider of mobile applications in college. Laurence Sotsky: The applications themselves do a number of different things. We're the official mobile app for whatever our customer is. Previous to this, I ran a custom, mobile application development shop. What do your apps do?

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Interview with Bryan Biniak, Connected Travel

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We have built an application services platform for vehicles, and our first customer was actually USAA. That's where we started to play with Honda, our next big customer, where we have built out these infotainment and commerce systems in a vehicle, with an ad platform on top of what we started as an incentive for safe driving.