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How Pertino is reinventing the future of business networking

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Veterans of the networking industry, Craig formerly served as the CEO of Packeteer, a high-flying networking appliance vendor that he took public in 1999 with Scott as his director of engineering. At Packeteer, they built a hardware-based appliance that was expensive and complex to manage.

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30 Entrepreneur Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

We want our clients to feel like out of all the shopping they have done online they finally reached the top of their journey in securing the right product for their families. Since my co-founders and I haven't agreed on the company name yet, we decided to post in one of the Business Naming Facebook groups that we joined.

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Venture Capital Funding and the Sexism You Can’t Quite Prove

Up and Running

However, the ease with which she was able to secure venture funding was contingent on her ability to overcome what, in the VC world, is often an insurmountable barrier: the fact that she is a woman, and a woman of color, no less. According to Fortune , in 2006, female founders were involved in only 2.95 33 billion in venture funding.

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May Business Angels Spread Their Wings Over Kenya?

Transformify

I met Innocent Moranga, the founder of the Founder Magazine , at a round table peer group at CEOWorld. All this inspired Innocent Moranga to found the Founder Magazine. The next step would be to secure funding. Mbwana Alliy Founder and Managing Partner at Savannah Fund. Patricia Jumi Co-Founder at The Growth Hub.

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Why Every Company Needs A DevOps Team Now

Feld Thoughts

Following is a guest post on DevOps by Gene Kim , Multiple Award-Winning CTO, Researcher, Visible Ops Co-Author, Entrepreneur & Founder of Tripwire. Since 1999, my passion has been studying high performing IT organizations. manageability, scalability, reliability, security, and so forth). That moment is now.

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Small Business Spotlight of the Week: SignNow.com

crowdSPRING Blog

Andrew Ellis, one of the co-founders of SignNow.com, was so enthusiastic about his company, I’m going to let him do most the talking on this one: How would you explain what you do to somebody’s grandmother? One of the greatest industry challenges is educating the public about the security behind digital technology.

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Is LinkedIn Intro Good, Bad, or Impossible?

Feld Thoughts

The post title was provocative (presumably as intended) and drew a lot of attention from various people in the security world. By this point I had sent emails to several of my friends who were experts in the email / SMTP / IMAP / security ecosystem and was already getting feedback that generally trended negative. At their discretion.

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