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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%. They need a combination of capital and experience to separate from the rest of the pack – the low cost of starting a business means it is even more vital to become the market leader more quickly. The Funding Problem.

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Pragmatism with Flavor

TechEmpower

This gives us a point of view about servers and modern web application development that isn't terribly common these days: each server in your cluster should be able to process a significant amount of user load. A site with a million users is much easier to manage today than it was in 2000. Easy stuff should be easy.

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App is Crap (why Apple is bad for your health)

Both Sides of the Table

I was living in Europe in 2000 when the first WAP phones (Wireless Access Protocol) were introduced. They therefore have large cost bases and have to pass on those costs to you. - But the trade-off in terms of flexibility and costs were enormous. So Apple has encouraged application developers to set loose building apps.

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Oppose HB 1192 – The “Software Tax”

VC Adventure

Among other corporate positions in my career, I have been a Chief Information Officer, Chief Technology Officer, Chief Operating Officer and Senior Research Engineer for small private companies, and also some Fortune 500 and even Fortune 10 companies. This bill will NOT affect our company. Citrix Presentation Server 4.0, Oracle PeopleSoft 8.9,