socalTECH
NOVEMBER 13, 2012
We spoke with Jim Franklin , the firm's CEO, to hear more about how the company went from an accelerator startup at TechStars just a few years ago, to now more than 100 employees spread across offices in Boulder; Colorado, Anaheim, California; Frankfurt; London, and elsewhere, to tackle the problems of transactional email.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 13, 2011
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. We have a theme we call Protocol, which are technology protocols and markets built around technology protocols like SMTP for email and RSS.
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SoCal CTO
JUNE 14, 2008
The topic is: Betting Your Company On An Internet Platform? He sees this as similar to what happened with SMTP, POP, HTTP, etc. VRM - his company - goal is to provide a Level 4 platform. Benefit of a proprietary platform can be finding customers. Interestingly it was same developers in both companies.
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 10, 2010
The start of the argument is that you need to separate using the Internet into “infrastructure & cloud services&# (basically the protocols of the Internet such as HTTP, TCP/IP, SMTP, etc. + My first company was a SaaS software company started in 1999. The initial web HTML / browser experience was very limited.
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