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Rally Software Acquired By CA Technologies for $480 Million

Feld Thoughts

I remember my friend Ryan Martens sitting down with me and Chris Wand around 2001 and walking us through his idea for changing the how he approached managing the software development process. Ryan had a vision for an integration web-based system to layer on top of all of this to help support and manage the software development process.

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

Both Sides of the Table

He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University. In 2005 he was graduated and took a job in South Carolina working for technology company while he started his own web design company on the side. In 2007 Salesforce.com wanted to buy Koral. Felipe grew up in Brazil.

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Mattermark – An Example of How We Decide to Invest

Feld Thoughts

Well before the web existed, I was physically tearing articles out of industry magazines and sending them to customers, prospects, other entrepreneurs, and my partner Dave, who probably got tired of the stack of paper with notes scribbled on them that landed on his desk each day.

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Why Search Is Hard

Diego Basch

I realized that many people who search Google in 2013 are too young to remember the early days of web search (I’ll use Google as an example for this post, replace with your favorite search engine if you’d like). create an index in which every word points to all the web pages containing it, just like one at the end of a textbook.

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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

Both Sides of the Table

I spoke about how Amazon Web Services deserves far more credit for the last 5 years of innovation than it gets credit for and how I believe they spawned the micro-VC category. I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000.

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The Other Amazon Deal this week. Drupal founder attracts over $100 Million in 3 months.

Scalable Startup

Drupal was launched in 2001, and Acquia started in 2007. It was originally started as a college dorm project, where many of the best products on the web seem to hatch. But that’s a different article… Less prominent in the news, but possibly more important, is Amazon’s investment in ACQUIA. Acquia, Inc.

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Meet Manu Kumar, Chief Firestarter at K9 Ventures

K9 Ventures

Kumar was the Founder, President and CEO of SneakerLabs, a company which developed software and services for web-based customer interaction. He then served as the Chairman and CEO of iMeet, a provider of web-conferencing services. in Computer Science with a Distinction in Teaching from Stanford University.