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How Pertino is reinventing the future of business networking

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Over a coffee in a small office in Cupertino (yes, their name is related to their founding hometown), we talked about how it was the right time to build a new networking company due to the confluence of three major trends: cloud, software defined networking (SDN), and the consumerization of IT. The discussion struck a chord with us.

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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

Being an outsider, I also wanted to lean heavily on the actual research available on the subject, as well as the voices of women both in the tech space and who have successfully received venture funding. According to Fortune , in 2006, female founders were involved in only 2.95 Giadha Aguirre de Carcer via Her Agenda.

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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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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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10+ Trends: Recap of 2011 and What’s Next…

thebarefootvc

This was the year that the promise of technology to truly change the world and empower individuals (the reason I entered the tech world in 1994) reached global scale. Kiva co-founder Jessica Jackley’s latest venture Profounder is one platform that could power these transactions.

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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

It can also keep your employees employed or help you retain your job—a modicum of security in uncertain times. A Harvard Business Review (HBR) study of 4,700 public companies looked at the three years before, during, and after recessions. But nothing gets better if we stand still. Work can be a welcome intellectual distraction.

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