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The Changing Venture Landscape

Both Sides of the Table

We have global opportunities from these trends but of course also big challenges. Of course we can’t. I’m over-paying for every check I write into the VC ecosystem and valuations are being pushed up to absurd levels and many of these valuations and companies won’t hold in the long term. Hot, Flat & Crowded.” By definition?—?I’m

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Google partners with Sony Pictures Imageworks to launch an open source VFX render manager

TechCrunch LA

OpenCue doesn’t handle any of the actual rendering processes but it provides all the tools to break down those different steps and then schedule and manage the different rendering jobs across large rendering farms, both local and in the cloud.

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Microsoft Venture Fund Aims to Harness Early Stage Innovation

Xconomy

The name of the fund—which will back startups focused on cloud computing, machine learning, and security, with an emphasis on technology that complements Microsoft’s own products and services—is Microsoft Ventures. And at the other end is where you’ll typically see our larger investments and acquisitions,” Kashyap writes.

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The Changing Structure of the VC Industry

Both Sides of the Table

Just 3 years ago there was talk of institutional investors “not being able to write small enough checks.” Many pension funds are simply too large to write small checks and favor the ability to write $50-100 million checks to funds. Of course strongest industry players don’t stand still. Why is this?

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Interview: Thorsten von Eicken of RightScale

InfoChachkie

Or would you like me to sell you a story on how cloud computing is green because these large datacenters are more energy efficient than the same number of computers run in ad-hoc ways? Let me answer ‘why computing needs RightScale.’ Computing is going the way of the electric grid. It’s contagious!”. 5) It is 2015.

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I Know SQL Is Key, But Where Do I Start?

Tech Zulu Event

However, the important thing is ensuring the course taken is perfect in getting one started with SQL. It should be the perfect stepping stone to a more advanced course. Learning about databases is very important and doing so will set you on course to a great time learning about SQL. Understand databases. Data management.

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Quickly Enable Social Logins with JanRain Engage

SoCal Delicious

Of course, youll need to use a social login to get into the site. Your article is the only useful information Ive found about Engage but one thing I dont get is, what methods do you say we have to write? (in Is this error related to what Im supposed to write? Well come back to this in a moment.