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Bringing The Benefit Of Managed Cloud To Enterprises, With Metacloud

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The company announced a funding round from Canaan Partners, Storm Ventures, and AME Cloud a couple of weeks ago. Steve Curry: I had been at Yahoo managing their storage operations. After I left Yahoo, I spent a couple of years with Forsythe Solutions Group, as a liaison with account executives. What drove you to start MetaCloud?

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Want to Start a Technology Company in LA?

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Funding is different – In Silicon Valley you have mega venture capital funds and many of them. They not only have gotten bigger but they have an amazing track record of funding the biggest names in the sector: Cisco, Apple, Google, Facebook. As a result many funds are OK with big bets. You don’t.

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The social Web in 2010: The emerging standards and technologies to watch

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As for 2010, it’s shaping up to be a year of general improvement in the business and technology industries hard hit by recession, the impact of which has seemed to hold back new investment and experimentation in social technologies, many of which are funded by staff participation from Internet firms. close behind.

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