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The Changing Venture Landscape

Both Sides of the Table

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. If you’re going to play in the big leagues you need to be writing checks from a $700 million?—?$1 Are we in a bubble?” By definition?—?I’m of the fund.

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RingRevenue Creates A New Performance Marketing Revenue Channel

InfoChachkie

9) In Getting The Band Back Together , I write about the power of serial Founding teams. The more fascinating thing to me though, is how agile development and cloud computing are influencing how these technologies are brought to market. We’re going to continue to see a lot of innovation in these areas.

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Interview: Thorsten von Eicken of RightScale

InfoChachkie

Messenger : Thorsten von Eicken , RightScale’s Co-Founder and CTO, Chief Architect at Citrix Online (formerly Expertcity) and Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University and UC Santa Barbara. Let me answer ‘why computing needs RightScale.’ Computing is going the way of the electric grid. 5) It is 2015.