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10 Apps & Tools for Maximizing Personal Efficiency

Frank Addante

I scan/fax documents to Evernote that I want to keep. On the personal side, I take photos of wine that I like and store them in a notebook called “Favorite Wines” and keep copies of all of my critical documents (driver’s license, passport, insurance documents, etc.) I take all of my meeting notes directly in Evernote.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 3

Both Sides of the Table

And I know that great startups like Yammer are doing well. They also help you surface things like documents that you shared with other people without having to look through a bunch of old emails to find them. $5.0mm in Series C. Increasing this is also migrating to social network messaging but email is still king. Enter Xobni.

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Is WebEx “Dead Man Walking?”

Both Sides of the Table

This week I was preparing for my weekly This Week in Venture Capital web show and was researching some of the deals that were announced for the week. Aside from attacking yet another market segment all I could think about is, “Why enter the web conferencing market. Isn’t WebEx already dead man walking?

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The Amazing Power of Deflationary Economics for Startups

Both Sides of the Table

I have other areas of interest & competence such as cloud computing and document management given my background. And then they decided they wanted to be the Internet retailer of computing services so they created Amazon Web Services. This generation’s Sears Catalog. So they kept cutting costs of everything they offered.

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

Both Sides of the Table

We put all of this infrastructure in an Exodus web hosting facility and had to pay for rack space, bandwidth and some management services if a disk failed, for example. I had been selling large content management systems and storing documents for industrial-scale customers. We raised $16.5 million in our A round.

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