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Cornell Tech Company: Agronomic Technology Corp (Part 1), Guest Post by Deb Eichten

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Cayuga Venture Fund recently closed an investment in a company called Agronomic Technology Corp (ATC). The underlying tech was developed at Cornell (like many of the companies in the CVF portfolio). The resulting product adapt-N has become the initial offering of Agronomic Technology. Pioneering Better Ag through Big Data.

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My Top 10 for 2018

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You’ll notice underlying the top 10 is what I regard to be the biggest shift in tech at the moment is the realisation that we have a technology wildfire raging. Another reminder that these are not technology companies but media organisations that are long overdue some serious regulation. Yes, it will come back even stronger.

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The Great Coding School Rollup of 2015

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I know several people who have gone through the with great success and gone on to have excellent software development jobs. When I saw the proposal, I immediately thought of the web consulting rollups of 1999. My first company, Feld Technologies, was bought by AmeriData, which bought 40 companies in three years.

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Think you’ve got a strategy to enter the Chinese market? Think twice

The Next Web

Yu graduated from Nankai University in 1999 with a bachelor’s degree in economics. Technology collaborations along the lines of the Qualcomm-Tudou partnership are another example of creative US-China partnerships. Earlier in his career, he was a VP at Legend Capital. The short answer is simple: Partnership.

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Best of Breed

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Larger companies such as IBM and SAP that had enterprise-wide deployments would offer some solutions around these pain points, but entrepreneurs claimed that these were not sufficient, and that the emergence of the Web and server technology made some of the legacy software inefficient, inadequate and obsolete.

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Small Business Spotlight of the Week: SignNow.com

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Some might say this is because I am a college-aged millennial whose social skills have been stunted by technology, but I think it has more to do with the ease, convenience and immediacy the internet provides. One of the greatest industry challenges is educating the public about the security behind digital technology.

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Gust Blog - Thoughts on startups by investors that fund them

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I bought the Rocket eBook Reader in 1999. We think it’s a matter of products, but history shows us it takes more than just products and technology to create the sweeping changes. Like the problem solver I had been trained as in my software development days, I parsed his issue. Both products were innovative leaders.

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