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Avalon Ventures Raises A New $200 Million Fund And Gets A New Website

Feld Thoughts

I’ve been friends with and co-invested with Rich Levandov , one of Avalon’s partners, since the mid-1990′s, most recently in Standing Cloud , Zynga , and NewsGator. Congrats to my friends at Avalon Ventures on raising their new $200 million fund.

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Amazon’s Scorpion Problem

Feld Thoughts

.” Over the weekend, there was some commentary on AWS in fight of its life as customers like Dropbox ponder hybrid clouds and Google pricing. “Could Amazon Web Services be feeling the heat from new public cloud competitors? Computer Industry amazon aws cloud competition google microsoft partners'

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Clouds on the horizon

The Equity Kicker

Whilst valuations in the UK at the very early stages at which Forward Partners invests haven’t moved much (yet) friends here who invest at later stages are telling me stories of companies slashing their expectations by 40-50%. I think it’s unlikely we will crash as hard as did in 2000 or 2008.

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[Singapore] Golden Gate Ventures Invests In Three Local Startups

YoungUpstarts

Singapore-based early-stage technology seed fund Golden Gate Ventures has announced investments into cloud-based inventory and sales management SaaS solutions provider TradeGecko , online grocer RedMart and mobile payment provider Coda Payments. ” “It reminds me of what China was in the early 2000′s,” adds Paine.

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How Much Will These Experts Cost Your Business – and Do You REALLY Need Them?

Women Entrepreneurs Can

The people behind your company who you employ or partner with will determine whether your business succeeds or fails. An alternative you might consider would be an online cloud-based accounting solution. On average, you will need to pay roughly between $200 and $2000 per month for this service. It’s the people.

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This Week in VC with Om Malik & Paul Jozefak

Both Sides of the Table

What a pleasure that I got to spend an hour talking with both Om Malik (whom I’ve always respected his views) and Paul Jozefak , a venture capital partner at Neuhaus Partners in Germany (and formerly the head of Europe for SAP Ventures). His view: sometimes entrepreneurs expect too much value from the partner.

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The ?PC? Era Finally Arrives ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

What he and others have meant is of course that the desktop computer is losing its preeimance as the primary computing platform with the rise of smartphones and tablets at one end and cloud computing (in all its forms) at the other. It was only in 2000 that a majority of of US homes had a computer. Previous Entries.