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Big tech companies are looking at Hollywood as the next stage in their play for the cloud

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This week, both Microsoft and Google made moves to woo Hollywood to their cloud computing platforms in the latest act of the unfolding drama over who will win the multi-billion dollar business of the entertainment industry as it moves to the cloud. in Los Angeles. in Los Angeles.

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What I Learned in 2014: Jeb Spencer, TVC Capital

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2014 was the most active year in TVC history as measured by the number of investments/acquisitions/follow-ons/exits we completed. What was your biggest lesson learned in 2014? achieved a market cap of $1 billion or more. spencer capital 2014 reflections venture' So how do you address these odds and win? READ MORE>>.

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Why Has Seed Investing Declined? And What Does this Mean for the Future?

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As a result of the IPO window shifting we saw a massive inflow of public-market capital into the latest stages of venture. In this post I set out to explain why the seed market emerged as its own category in the first place and why it’s declined as of late. ( The “A Round” of my startup in 1999 was $16.5

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The Changing Structure of the VC Industry

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15 years ago we were at the peak of Internet hype with the launch of many over-capitalized businesses with a market size & opportunity was limited. The VC market has right-sized (returned back to mid 90′s levels & less competition). But markets value high growth over short-term profitability. Where are we today?

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How the Seed-Stage VC Trend Began, The Downsides of Unicorns & Much More

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I began asking around who the likely investors were for such a market. If you want to understand the software trend that drove the creation of the seed-stage VC phenomenon I wrote about it that linked blog post but in short: cloud computing drove down the cost to create startups enabling a new category of investor.

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6 Trends Are Driving A Data Tsunami For Startups

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Per a new study by networking giant Cisco , the world’s yearly mobile data traffic grew 69 percent in 2014, reaching 2.5 Cloud computing: the death of dedicated infrastructure. More and more company and personal services are being virtualized to the Cloud. exabytes per month at the end of the year.

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Girls in STEM and Cyber Security Among Top Startups at Eureka Park 2018

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In a report by the National Student Clearinghouse only 18 percent of women graduated with a science degree in 2014. They built the world’s most agile crypto library, and regardless of programming language, platform or market, they can help developers deploy end-to-end encryption and protection within one’s application.