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Venture investors and startup execs say they don’t need Elizabeth Warren to defend them from big tech

TechCrunch LA

Responding to Elizabeth Warren’s call to regulate and break up some of the nation’s largest technology companies, the venture capitalists that invest in technology companies are advising the presidential hopeful to move slowly and not break anything. As a whole, venture capitalists viewing the policy were underwhelmed.

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5 Steps To Locking In The Right New Venture Partner

Startup Professionals Musings

The new paradigm, driven by disruptive technologies, cloud-served supercomputing, and the new generation of young adults with global empathy, is partnering and giving something now for a competitive advantage in the future. Social media relationships fuel the scaling fire. Find partners who can do what you cannot do alone.

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10 Key Business Domains Where ‘Big Data’ Looms Large

Startup Professionals Musings

This data comes from sensors, social media posts, digital pictures and videos, purchase transactions, everywhere. Hence one segment of the opportunity is the need for new database technologies, like Hadoop , a distributed file system originally designed for indexing the Web. Social media and web data.

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5 Strategies For Startup Partnering To Win Long Term

Startup Professionals Musings

The new paradigm, driven by disruptive technologies, cloud-served supercomputing, and the new generation of young adults with global empathy, is partnering and giving something now for a competitive advantage in the future. Social media relationships fuel the scaling fire. Find partners who can do what you cannot do alone.

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10 Business Areas Where Data Is The Key To The Future

Startup Professionals Musings

According to IBM , companies have captured more data in the last two years than in the previous 2000 years. This data comes from sensors, social media posts, digital pictures and videos, purchase transactions, everywhere. IBM adds a fourth “V” of Veracity to add trust and noise filtering to the challenge of Big Data analysis.

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7 Incentives For Testing Your Startup Marketing Early

Startup Professionals Musings

Entrepreneurs talk to customers and competitors talk to each other about the new trends and technologies they see. You can’t get any word-of-mouth or media activity by hiding. Most people agree that even negative media attention is better than none. Coopetition is the new mantra for growing your business faster.

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7 Reasons To Avoid Stealth Mode For Your New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

Entrepreneurs talk to customers and competitors talk to each other about the new trends and technologies they see. You can’t get any word-of-mouth or media activity by hiding. Most people agree that even negative media attention is better than none. Coopetition is the new mantra for growing your business faster.