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

TechCrunch LA

That includes the launch of its Los Angeles cloud region last year, as well as its acquisition of the Zync cloud renderer back in 2014. Google was also a founding member of the Academy Software Foundation , an open source foundation that focuses specifically on tools for the film industry.

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

Tech Zulu Event

Join us for a special evening with InfoWorld’s Dave Linthicum as he delves into global enterprise software trends with some of LA’s most successful SaaS and cloud computing companies. Featuring panelists from SOA Software , Edgecast and Bitium , we’ll discuss: Top priorities and challenges for today’s CIO.

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Data is the Next Major Layer of the Cloud & A Major Victory for Startups

Both Sides of the Table

During my second startup we never considered using cloud computer processing for our real-time processes but we did run some batch processes there. They have built tools to store the data but also to allow 3rd-party developers to rapidly consume or even write data to their tables. Processing. Think about it.

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