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Gradient X Snags Exec From OpenX

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Gradient X , the online mobile marketing and advertising technology developer backed by GRP Partners, Rincon Venture Partners, Crosscut Ventures, Founder Collective, Double M Capital, Baroda Ventures, Siemer Ventures, and others, has snapped up some talent from OpenX with its latest hire. He was at Overture before it was acquired by Yahoo.

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Bringing The Benefit Of Managed Cloud To Enterprises, With Metacloud

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That allows companies to reuse their existing capital, get full control over where their data resides, and where their performance is very deterministic, day in and day you, because you''re not sharing it with any other tenant on the public cloud. Steve Curry: I had been at Yahoo managing their storage operations.

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Interview with Jeff Kukowski, SecureAuth

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Even with prominent breaches at Yahoo, LinkedIn, and others, how many consumers actually take the time to enable that second factor? Vinny Smith was the founder of Quest, and Toba Ventures is his venture capital firm. That's where things are today. We as consumers don't want to take those steps. We are lazy.

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Want to Start a Technology Company in LA?

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Funding is different – In Silicon Valley you have mega venture capital funds and many of them. You don’t have the founders of eBay, LinkedIn, Salesforce.com and Yahoo. Douglas Merrill, the former CIO of Google, is building his next company in LA. But we have a great city for building technology companies.

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Can You Really Build a Great Tech Firm Outside Silicon Valley?

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Last year I was on Sand Hill Road in Silicon Valley meeting with one of the most prominent venture capital firms in the country. If you are talented, of course, you can get funded in any region with enough venture capital and obviously in markets outside of the Valley it is easier to get noticed and get access. eBay and others.