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Announcing The Socaltech 50: Southern California's Up-and-Comers

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Thorsten von Eicken , Rightscale (Santa Barbara, cloud computing). Internap , PricewaterhouseCoopers , Demand Media , Stubbs, Alderton & Markiles LLP , Oracle , Cresa Partners , UK Trade & Investment , PIXT , and many others. Holden Steinberg , Pagewoo (Santa Monica, advertising).

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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Both Sides of the Table

I will argue that LPs who invest in VC funds will also need to adjust a bit as well. We had to buy Oracle database licenses, UNIX servers, a Sun Solaris operating system, web servers, load balancers, EMC storage, disk mirrors for redundancy and had to commit to a year-long hosting agreement at places such as Exodus.

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Why You Should Make Your Competitors Your Frenemies

Both Sides of the Table

He has been able to take complicated topics like cloud computing and boil them down into pithy messages like “the end of software&# as depicted in the simple logo to the right. It emphasizes both cloud computing and salesforce.com’s differentiation – they’re not “software.&#. Them vs. Us.

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UnVenture Capitalists: Seek Investors Aligned With Your Interests, Not Their Egos

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Because of the advancements in cloud computing by companies like RightScale and open source software such as MySQL , the costs to create a scalable web service have decreased by a factor of ten since the year 2000. We also incurred substantial software licensing charges from Sun Microsystems, Microsoft and Oracle.

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UnVenture Capitalists: Seek Investors Aligned With Your Interests, Not Their Egos

InfoChachkie

Because of the advancements in cloud computing by companies like RightScale and open source software such as MySQL , the costs to create a scalable web service have decreased by a factor of ten since the year 2000. We also incurred substantial software licensing charges from Sun Microsystems, Microsoft and Oracle.

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The social Web in 2010: The emerging standards and technologies to watch

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As for 2010, it’s shaping up to be a year of general improvement in the business and technology industries hard hit by recession, the impact of which has seemed to hold back new investment and experimentation in social technologies, many of which are funded by staff participation from Internet firms. There are others as well.

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