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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Both Sides of the Table

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. Linux (instead of UNIX), Apache (web server software), MySQL (instead of Oracle) and PHP.

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How Roambi Is Making Mobile Work For The Enterprise, with Quinton Alsbury

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That data can come from an existing business intelligence system, like SAP, Oracle, IBM, or Salesforce.com. Quinton Alsbury: One of the surprising things to us, which is you wouldn't think that launching a new startup, on a very new technology platform at the time, the iPhone, would get you the biggest companies in the world.

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The Power Of Mouth To Mouth Marketing

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I work for Hubba, a Toronto startup that has built a sharing platform that takes a unique "big data" approach to data management for brands and retailers. We decided to shake things up and take a risk at the biggest data management summit, attended by multi-billion dollar corporations, including IBM, Oracle and Informatica.

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The Big VC Thaw – Why The Market is Moving Again (part 2 of 3)

Both Sides of the Table

M&A has shown some spectacular results including Zappos to Amazon for $928million , Sun to Oracle for $7.4 Much like iPhone is the only mobile platform in town, Facebook is the only “closed network” social networking platform in town. This is one book-end of the cycle. billion and Omniture to Adobe for an astounding $1.8

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How Event Farm Is Making Events A Part Of Your Sales Funnel

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We provide an event and experiential marketing platform. If you look at the marketing cloud, at companies like Salesforce, Oracle, and Adobe, they are providing the consumer marketing cloud. Of course, there are follow up emails, but during an event is the next big chunk. The most obvious, is to drive sales.

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Congrats To The Spotlight: LA Tech Winter Presenting Companies at Caltech

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All it takes is an email address to start receiving our exclusive deals for sports tickets to your favorite teams in your city. Leftronic is a real-time data visualization platform for startups. CitySourced is a real time mobile civic engagement platform. Crowd Seats is the only Group Buying/Daily Deals site for sports fans.

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

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While the focus perhaps should instead be on the conversations themselves and integrating them across whatever platforms within which they are taking place, the view today is instead still too much on individual tools and channels. Dion Hinchcliffe Get Enterprise Web 2.0 Dion Hinchcliffe Get Enterprise Web 2.0

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