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

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For decades the “layering&# of technology has allowed us to develop IT systems and networks in a specialized way that let’s best-of-breed technology solutions to emerge at each layer of the stack and to allow people with different skill sets to specialize in key areas without having to have competence in every technology arena.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Booyah – Develops a location based service platform that pairs the virtual world with mobile gaming. Helps content publishers and advertisers launch campaigns that develop viral distribution attributes and therefore gain “buzz.”. In the show we talked about why this is important to mobile application developers.

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The Coming Shift in Enterprise Software

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To watch a young company win 1,000+ seat deals at Global 100 companies at this stage of development has been simply stunning. The trailblazer in the category of course was Twitter and David Sacks quickly spotted the use case for enterprise and launched Yammer, which was purchased by Microsoft for more than $1 billion.

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