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The Changing Structure of the VC Industry

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Always-on connectivity of mobile (164m US smartphone users). Just 3 years ago there was talk of institutional investors “not being able to write small enough checks.” Many pension funds are simply too large to write small checks and favor the ability to write $50-100 million checks to funds. Why is this?

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Is WebEx “Dead Man Walking?”

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I first noticed it while filming an episode of This Week in Cloud Computing. he was showing us what was on his computer). I had expect a Q&A style session and as I asked the first question – BOOM – he went straight to screen sharing using his term sheet write-ups on VentureHacks.

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RingRevenue Creates A New Performance Marketing Revenue Channel

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9) In Getting The Band Back Together , I write about the power of serial Founding teams. They are also often looking for more cost effective ways to advertise to mobile users. Mobile, social and video are changing consumer behavior and advertising as we know it. Rincon Venture Partners and GRP Partners ).

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Data is the Next Major Layer of the Cloud & A Major Victory for Startups

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During my second startup we never considered using cloud computer processing for our real-time processes but we did run some batch processes there. They have built tools to store the data but also to allow 3rd-party developers to rapidly consume or even write data to their tables. Processing. Other Layers.

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