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Rally Software Acquired By CA Technologies for $480 Million

Feld Thoughts

Congrats to my friends at Rally Software on the announcement that they’ve signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by CA Technologies for $480 million. 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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17 Venture Capital Blogs You Should Be Reading

Up and Running

This is the home of Jason Cohen, software startup founder, bootstrapper, investor, and mentor. Probably the grand-daddy of VC blogs, Union Square Ventures’ Fred Wilson has been posting every day since 2003. Funding a Business Venture Capital and Angel Investors advice blogs funding venture capital venture capitalist'

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Texas Startup Manifesto 2.0

Austin Startup

From software and hardware design to advanced manufacturing, Texas is fertile ground for innovation, investment, business starts and smart job growth. Frisco has become a hot spot in North Texas for venture capitalists, angel investors, startups, universities, pitch competitions and seed accelerators,” said Frisco Mayor Jeff Cheney. “In

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California Startup Gold – bring it here to scale it

Scalable Startup

In 2003 Electronic Arts actually moved their headquarters from Silicon Valley to Playa Vista, an crazy move at the time, and accelerated their growth as a result. Several smaller software groups, vfx studios and creative design labs are now benefitting from the movement south.

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The Guy Who Took on Google (and now LinkedIn): Mike Yavonditte

Both Sides of the Table

He is also an active angel investor in companies like Klout and Meetup. Around 2003, Quigo was doing tens of millions of dollars in revenue with two main products: a ready-to-use, search engine marketing solution for advertisers called FeedPoint and a contextual advertising platform for publishers called AdSonar.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

So what ends up happening is great programmers are led sheepishly into the arms of suggestive Angel Investors, VC’s or mentor hybrids like yourself who guide the product into what they’d like to see. also, just to clarify, the first idea we worked on that we called “meebo&# back in 2003 was my idea.

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Convertible Equity, A Better Alternative To Convertible Debt?

techcrunch.com

She graduated from Columbia University in 2003, where she was. There has been no shortage of controversy and criticism around the convertible note, a popular investing vehicle that’s used by seed stage and angel investors. → Learn More. Your guide for the best gadget gifts of 2011. Crunchboard.

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