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Nirvanix Names Marketing VP

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San Diego-based Nirvanix , which operates a cloud storage service, said today that it has named Steve Zivanic as the firm's new Vice President of Marketing. Nirvanix said Steve will be responsible for strategic marketing initiatives and driving brand awareness for the company. READ MORE>>.

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IDrive: We're The Biggest Cloud Service In LA You've Never Heard Of

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The online cloud storage service provider says it now has 35 petabytes worth of user data stored on its service, an online backup and synchronization service aimed at the personal and small business market. The company said it increased its staff by a third last year. READ MORE>>. softnet angeles hiring sync backup service cloud idrive'

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Why Has Seed Investing Declined? And What Does this Mean for the Future?

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As a result of the IPO window shifting we saw a massive inflow of public-market capital into the latest stages of venture. In this post I set out to explain why the seed market emerged as its own category in the first place and why it’s declined as of late. ( The “A Round” of my startup in 1999 was $16.5

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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

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Choosing Internet Platforms

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A very interesting topic, especially for those of us involved in developing for start-ups. Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. Level 1 & 2 Burden is still on the developers, you still have infrastructure. Stamps.com - two back-ends - mainline service vs. marketing site.

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REACH | Disruptive Technologies Impacting the Future of Gaming [Live]

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The REACH event will bring together some of gaming’s most influential thinkers, creators, and developers who will guide us through their vision of the next evolution of gaming. At G4, Scot served as VP of Program Editorial and Internet, and developed, Produced, and Hosted G4TV.COM, the network’s interactive talk show.

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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. Developer of Appsaurus , a mobile app recommendation engine. Founded in 1999 in Austin, Texas.