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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. Red Hat was one of the first of these types of companies bridging open source with big finance, leveraging Linux support into a profitable business, also leveraging the enterprise. Acquia, Inc. They kind of invented this business model.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

Both Sides of the Table

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. Web service architecture that provides a content management platform for the Internet. We will hopefully close on a $2-3 million financing round at some point in January and I can get back to the full time work of running my business. Page 2: What’s unique about Koral.

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Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO

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Preserve your equity by using a consulting CTO to ramp up your company before securing early-stage financing and hiring a permanent technology partner. Though after the dotcom collapse of 2000-2001, there are many more than there were! Why are consulting CTOs so scarce? For one thing, you’ll learn from his mistakes.

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Bubble Trouble? I Don’t Think So

Ben's Blog

Similarly, in recent high profile private financing rounds for private technology companies with valuations over $1B, the valuation multiples were at or below corresponding multiples for publicly traded companies such as Google. And hence the great crash of 2000 and 2001. Public market comparables. Much better. It didn’t stop there.

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CIOs Are from Mars; CMOs Are from Venus: Seven Ways To Bridge The Great Divide

YoungUpstarts

And Stoddard notes that at NetApp they use proper governance to facilitate faster learning: “We use an enterprise executive architecture committee, with all the leaders of every NetApp function — marketing, sales, HR, operations, finance, and so on. That’s how we can come up with a roadmap for the whole company.

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Helping Startups And Small Businesses: A Good Idea From D.C. (Can You Believe It?)

YoungUpstarts

by Dean Zerbe, alliantgroup National Managing Director, and former Senior Counsel to the Senate Finance Committee. Senate Committee on Finance. When it comes to U.S. Good News for Startups. economic growth and job creation, by allowing them to take advantage of the successful Research and Development (R&D) tax credit.