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Does Fintech Disruption Break The Investment Banking Model?

YoungUpstarts

Here digital intercepts of consumer activities are aggregated into large data sets, analysed, and assessed versus market expectations. Compliance is being disrupted as algorithms and other software driven programs can be written to detect and report anomalies much more efficiently than human compliance officers. Compliance.

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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Kayak Software Corporation. How They Do It: Aggregate data from travel data warehouses like ITA as well as indexing travel providers websites, provide this information to consumers in a highly customizable search engine. extension round closed April 2006. round closed May 2006. Founding Date: 2004. Series C Preferred.

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Never Mind the Valley: Here's Paris

ReadWriteStart

When I came to Paris in 2006, I had a well-developed idea for a startup and nothing else. There's a thriving geek culture in Paris, and no lack of software development expertise, thanks to superior universities that produce superior engineers. billion online in the first quarter of this year.

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Cracking The Code: State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment

Cracking the Code

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. While the group sentiment for 2010 did not improve significantly vs. November 2009, the projections for 2011 are now a lot more optimistic - 42% higher 2011 aggregated EBITDA announced in March 2010 vs. the November 09!

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Cracking The Code: Happy New Year 2008!

Cracking the Code

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. This represents an outstanding 2,298% growth vs. 2006 (this type of growth seems big but you get used to it when reading business plans is you day job). Intego is the leading Security Software Suite for Mac.

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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

Both Sides of the Table

The idea was right but the timing was early and required a pivot into being a software company. The in invest in IT (Software + Internet + Healthcare). Since 2006 they have added offices outside of Boston including Menlo Park, Europe, and China. They aggregate other people’s content and curate it into categories.

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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

For the next four or five years, technology M&A boomed, growing from 50 in 2003 to 450 in 2006. The companies I was involved with as board member, such as Inxight Software (sold to BOBJ), were living on a high through the hype phase and had to relearn and retool themselves to make it on scarce resources and raw talent.