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Getting To The Next Level In Cloud Storage, With IDrive

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Cloud storage is a competitive market, with dozens of cloud storage providers hoping to gain a big chunk of the market. We''re not using third party services such as Amazon S3, which just adds to your cost. What are your plans to grow your market? We spoke with Raghu Kulkarni CEO/Founder of Pro Softnet Corp.

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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

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Venture capital is in the process of its own creative destruction with new market entrants and new models of innovation at the precise moment that our industry itself is contracting. million in team costs to code, launch, manage, market & sell our software. When I built my first company starting in 1999 it cost $2.5 And maddening.

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This Week in VC with Farb Nivi, Founder of Grockit

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Current round: $8.1mm in Series C by S3 Ventures (lead), Adams Capital Mgmt, Triangle Peak Partners. Pricing engine helps publishers ascertain ad inventory pricing by analyzing ad transaction data from the market/exchanges. Competition: Pingg, MyPunchbowl, TinyPrints , PaperlessPost. Competition: Apple iPhone App Store Genius.

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INNOVATION - A Scientist's Perspective

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A colleague working at the National Science Foundation said to me, "The lag time between fundamental idea and marketable product is usually longer than policymakers are willing to consider." Innovation is the heart of national competitiveness. There are numerous other examples.) But people in Washington can barely define what it is.