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The top 10 cities for $100M VC rounds in 2018 so far

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Jason Rowley is a venture capital and technology reporter for Crunchbase News. The SaaS VC gap: China & other markets trail the US. Early-stage SaaS VC slip snaps recovery as public software stocks soar. The San Francisco Bay Area is perhaps one of the best-known tech and startup hubs in the world.

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Swarm Aims To Rejuvenate San Diego's Software Industry

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It hasn''t been a great few months for San Diego''s software and technology industry, as the city has seen three, big software companies move their operations, and thousands of jobs, to Texas. Others involved in the effort include investor Brant Cooper, and Cooley''s Eric Otterson.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

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I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. It included one firm who I asked not to call Salesforce.com as a reference (they were our largest pilot customer) and in their kindness they called Marc Benioff (the CEO) and asked his opinion. In case VC’s haven’t figured this out yet, shit rolls downhill.

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On Ramp Wireless: Connecting The Smart Grid

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One of the companies that has recently is On Ramp Wireless (www.onrampwireless.com), a San Diego company in the M2M market headed by Kevin Hell. This last round is a significant amount of capital, why the new funding? Kevin Hell: Hardware companies do require more capital. For hardware, it''s even more challenging.

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How Work Today Is Connecting Blue Collar Workers With Jobs, with Joe Nigro

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in a funding from Mucker Capital, Social Capital, Hone Capital (formerly CSC Venture Capital), E-Merge, and GAN Ventures. Joe Nigro: The amazing thing, is the workforce, the workers who use our platform, love using our service so much, that they are the ones referring businesses and workers to us.

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Interview with Brian Garrett, Crosscut Ventures

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Los Angeles-based Crosscut Ventures (www.crosscutventures.com) is one of the newest venture capital funds in the area, and has quietly been working on funding local companies over the last year. Like any entrepreneur, we had the idea that there should be local capital, supporting the local ecosystem.

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Here is Why Non-Obvious Startup Ideas Can Yield the Largest Results

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It has become so synonymous with Internet companies that the French have invented a disdainful term including Amazon: “les GAFA,” which they refer to as Google-Apple-Facebook-Amazon to talk about American dominance of the Internet. What tech has our capital raised gone into? How valuable are these legacy businesses?

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