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Reflections On 2016: John Greathouse, Investor, Professor at UC Santa Barbara

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John Greathouse: We opened up our practice in San Diego by investing in Zingle and Raken. I am very excited with the prospects of the San Diego market, as it reminds me of Santa Barbara circa 2005. That said, I did enjoy this talk by a16z's Peter Levine regarding the future of cloud computing.

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Living on the Edge: Amazon, AT&T, Packet Pursue “Cloudlet” Computing

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The word “cloud”—as in cloud computing, and cloud storage—has served as a handy shorthand term, but it has always been inherently vague and a little misleading. But cloud gets it right on one score—it suggests distance. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Microsoft Venture Fund Aims to Harness Early Stage Innovation

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The name of the fund—which will back startups focused on cloud computing, machine learning, and security, with an emphasis on technology that complements Microsoft’s own products and services—is Microsoft Ventures. Nagraj Kashyap (photo courtesy of Qualcomm).

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