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Vinny Smith's Toba Capital Backs Sauce Labs

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Vinny Smith , the former CEO of Orange County''s Quest Software, has backed a developer of web and mobile application development, via his investment firm, Toba Capital. software quest smith vinny toba integration continuous mobile capital venture labs sauce' READ MORE>>.

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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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Morphlabs Takes On Amazon AWS With OpenStack Platform

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The firm said the new software allows service providers to implement their own, public cloud software--and claims that it out-performs the giant in the market, Amazon Web Services. Morphlabs said its software is aimed at helping service providers compete head-to-head with Amazon Web Services.

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SweetLabs Snags $13M

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The round was led by Intel Capital, and also included prior investors Google Ventures and Bessemer Venture Partners. Pokki allows developers to create desktop apps using web technologylike HTML5. According to the company, the new funding goes towards growing Pokki, the desktop app platform it launched in June. READ MORE>>.

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Nirvanix Adds Nasuni

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Nirvanix is a provider of a cloud storage service targeted at enterprises and web application developers; Nasuni develops a virtual network attached storage (NAS) file server that runs on VMware. Nirvanix is backed by Intel Capital, Valhalla Partners, Mission Ventures, Windward Ventures, and the European Founders Fund.

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Above the Cloud with Dave Linthicum | Shifting Perspectives on SaaS and Enterprise IT

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He keynotes leading technology conferences on cloud computing, SOA, enterprise application integration, and enterprise architecture. Alex is a proven web entrepreneur, having led and sold multiple successful startups. Alex Kazerani. Chairman & CEO at Edgecast. Scott Kriz. CEO at Bitium.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Our guest this week on #TWiVC was Dana Settle , partner at Greycroft Partners , a venture capital firm with offices in New York and Los Angeles. Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. In the show we talked about why this is important to mobile application developers. Time will tell. Go Boulder!