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How Sendgrid Makes Sure Those App Emails Go Through, With Jim Franklin

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We spoke with Jim Franklin , the firm's CEO, to hear more about how the company went from an accelerator startup at TechStars just a few years ago, to now more than 100 employees spread across offices in Boulder; Colorado, Anaheim, California; Frankfurt; London, and elsewhere, to tackle the problems of transactional email. What is Sendgrid?

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

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A deep dive into the Foundry Group investment philosophy including an interesting discussion of their investing Themes. “… our lens is: Internet Software Companies anywhere in the U.S. For example we have a theme we call human computer interaction, a theme we call Glue – which is a software layer that glues things together on the internet.

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The Case For & Against Cryptocurrencies (for those tired of all the noise)

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The Internet and World Wide Web themselves emerged from open protocols (HTTP, HTML, SMTP, etc) that allowed businesses, individuals and governments to put information online that was accessible to the masses and then to build applications on top of this infrastructure to the benefit of the masses. It’s Hobbesian economics 101.

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