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Cloudflare, Backed By Qualcomm Ventures, Eyes IPO

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San Francisco-based Cloudflare , which provides a service which helps web site and web application developers manage caching and access to their websites, protecting against cyberattacks, distributed denial of service (DDoS)--and which is backed by Qualcomm--is heading towards an IPO.

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Stained Glass Labs Patners With Exitround, Unveils App Directory for Google Glass

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Stained Glass Labs (SGL), the first Glass and wearable technologies accelerator has launched the world’s first comprehensive app directory and a self-service app publishing portal for Google Glass pre-launched applications.

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Twitter’s Acquisition, Chirp & Managing Developer Relationships

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I made sure that their thesis was in-stream (as opposed to being a side-bar advertisement like Google AdSense). I think Twitter made a minor gaffe by announcing their Blackberry app and their acquisition of Atebits (Tweetie) before the Chirp conference. No, I don’t think so. Two things : 1) when I invested in Ad.ly

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Entrepreneurs Should be Respected, Not Loved

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Google was n-o-t-h-i-n-g! Your product team is pissed off because they’re making $120,000 / year and some hot-shot 25 year-olds just made millions from the acquisition of XYZ company that we could have built here! Yes, even Google has to make these tough decisions about where to allocate staff and money.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

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The numbers of potential buyers had decreased dramatically both because large companies were shedding jobs and because many past buyers simply lacked resources to make acquisitions. According to Google data 30% of all restaurant searches now come via mobile devices. This never existed a decade ago. Everybody is now payment ready.