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The Changing Venture Landscape

Both Sides of the Table

What used to be an “A” round in 2011 is now routinely called a Seed round and this has been so engrained that founders would rather take less money than to have to put the words “A round” in their legal documents. dot-com bonanza. You have seed rounds but you now have “pre-seed rounds.” there are many other great firms here.

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Opening The Cloud: Marten Mickos, CEO of Eucalyptus Systems

InfoChachkie

I recently spoke with Marten Mickos, the former CEO of MySQL and current CEO of Eucalyptus Systems , the leader in private cloud platforms. Eucalyptus’ underlying technology was developed at UC Santa Barbara. In addition to heading up Eucalyptus, Marten is also on the Board of fellow-cloud company, RightScale.

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RingRevenue Creates A New Performance Marketing Revenue Channel

InfoChachkie

Who do you view as your biggest competition? The more fascinating thing to me though, is how agile development and cloud computing are influencing how these technologies are brought to market. When assembling a team, I encourage entrepreneurs to seek out the MVPs, and look to build diversity into the teams they assemble.”.

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