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Interview with Simon Anderson, DreamHost

socalTECH

We actually have a very big Wordpress user base, because of the work we''ve done with Wordpress, contributing code and integrating them into our platform. However, the founder recognized back in early 2011 that they wanted to take the platform to another level, and get DreamHosting in front of a much bigger audience, worldwide.

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KPCB has already blown through much of the $600 million it raised last year

TechCrunch LA

“This could also be due to changes in the competitive landscape … and there may be changes with First Round Capital itself,” says one investor. “Everybody thinks valuations are too high since 2011 and people are thinking there’s going to be a recession. ”

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Meet the Investors & Tech Leaders Judging at Startup Night SXSW 2018

Tech.Co

Also at Startup Night will be 25 diverse and innovative startups showcasing their latest products, competing for prizes including: $1K from LaunchKC , Business Extra Points from American Airlines , and a fast tracked spot to the Startup of the Year semifinals competition at Innovate Celebrate 2018. Siggi Hindrichs, Principal at Samsung NEXT.

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9 Women Can’t Make a Baby in a Month

Both Sides of the Table

Those of us that are willing to admit that we fawked things up in the first dot-com explosion and learned from our mistakes have the battle wounds to make more pragmatic decisions in 2011. I had my sales teams telling me we needed certain features to be competitive. I certainly did in my first company. What did he know? He was tech.

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Data Collective | New Dawn for Big Data Entrepreneurs

Tech Zulu Event

.” Matt Ocko also revealed to Silicon Beat that they have been getting a lot more press inquiries due to the number of deals they were doing. Data Collective founders say they still read code and understand chip architecture and how to build racks. Big Data Shift. They say they have run Hadoop jobs and built VM farms.

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Decoding the Secret of iPhone Game Popularity, With William Volk, Playscreen

socalTECH

It's an intensely competitive market in developing games for the iPhone and other mobile platforms, with thousands and thousands of titles competing for attention from users. William Volk: One of our other real big hits is Bocce Ball, which was our first Playscreen title in January of 2011. stars, mostly five star reviews.

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Startup Location Is Still A Critical Success Factor

Startup Professionals Musings

Maxwell Wessel, in a recent article in the Harvard Business Review on this subject, points out the exception successes of Zappos in Las Vegas, Sendgrid’s massive growth in Colorado, and RightNow’s $1.5 Today, Silicon Valley is the consumer and enterprise software capital of the world. Energy is still the domain of Houston and Dubai.

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