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Reflections On 2018: Matt Stodder, Startup Boost LA

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Are there any technology innovations, gadgets, devices, software, that you found most interesting in 2018? I continue to be intensely interested in the growing integration of AI across multiple products and industries, from simple applications on up to highly sophisticated software and services.

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CapLinked Raise $1.6m Series A Round & Appoint Adam Sroka As VP Technology

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Jackson added, “FinTech has traditionally lagged behind the innovation that’s happening in other areas of enterprise software. million, brings the company’s aggregate amount of capital raised to $2.5 25 Years of Writing Code. 25 Years of Writing Code. million Raised. Yesterdays’ equity round of $1.6

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Bringing The Benefit Of Managed Cloud To Enterprises, With Metacloud

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Many companies would love to be able to get the benefits of cloud--easy configurability, low cost, scaling, and more--but, due to various reasons, can''t take advantage of public cloud services like Amazon. With our software, our clients just inherited the ability to use Ceph, and there was nothing they had to do to get that.

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Are Business Plans Still Necessary?

Both Sides of the Table

This is part of my ongoing series of posts and I need to file this one under both Raising Venture Capital and Startup Advice. and the subsequent acquisition sprees of companies like Google, Yahoo!, That died with waterfall software development. Ditto for enterprise software companies. portfolios.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

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Yeah, that was when I changed for me…” “…there was so much positive feedback on demystifying this one element of venture capital. A deep dive into the Foundry Group investment philosophy including an interesting discussion of their investing Themes. “… our lens is: Internet Software Companies anywhere in the U.S. was starting.

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VC Confessions: We Passed On Twilio’s Seed Round

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I recall being impressed with Jeff, but I was concerned that he was creating a platform, which often requires a significant amount of capital, takes an extended amount of time to establish and can be subject to margin pressure as the enabling technologies become commoditized. Tech Diligence - Consider The Source.

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Do Not Obsess On Names – Obsess On Delivering Awesome Customer Value

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Yahoo – Merriam-Webster defines “Yahoo” as “a boorish, crass, or stupid person.” Jerry Yang and David Filo, Yahoo’s Founders, chose the name, as they considered themselves to be “Yahoos.” The term was first used by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver’s Travels , in which he encountered a brutish race of hideous humans.

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