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EMC buys portfolio company Greenplum – more behind the story

BeyondVC

This was the year 2000 and the idea was that Metapa would allow any company to send any media asset over any content delivery network and our service would automatically transform the asset for viewing anywhere. A few months after closing that round, we changed the name to Greenplum.

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EMC buys portfolio company Greenplum - more behind the story

BeyondVC

This was the year 2000 and the idea was that Metapa would allow any company to send any media asset over any content delivery network and our service would automatically transform the asset for viewing anywhere. A few months after closing that round, we changed the name to Greenplum.

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Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010

SoCal CTO

He blogs to 10,000 web entrepreneurs at Software by Rob and co-hosts the podcast Startups for the Rest of Us. How I Think About Seed Investing As A VC - Feld Thoughts , August 2, 2010 Last week saw an explosion of discussion around seed investing, including plenty of negative comments around VCs as seed investors. Dec 26, 2009).

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Out of the Crisis #7, Brian Chesky Part 1: running Airbnb in crisis mode, being multi-stakeholder, and re-founding the company

Startup Lessons Learned

So you want to be an entrepreneur, huh? So you wanted to be an entrepreneur, huh? And of course, this is 2000. This one really started getting legs in the late '90s, early 2000s. And a person I hired named Belinda Johnson, she was my general counsel, then she became my COO, now my board member. I am Eric Ries.