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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. After that it quickly gained credibility and spread throughout government, and corporate America. Acuia provides premium, high security, supported hosting to it’s customers, which all runs on top of Amazon AWS. Acquia, Inc. Because they are open source.

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Business Week Report on “Radical Future of R&D” Misses Critical Capital Markets Link in Innovation Ecosystem

Pascal's View

Unfortunately, Mr. Slywotzky makes an important assertion about venture capital that is incorrect. But from 2000 to the end of 2007, the rate plunged to 900,000 a year. First, the venture capital business is contracting severely: From the April 18th, 2009 NVCA/PWC Moneytree report: “Venture capitalists invested just $3.0

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On Supercities, Economic Growth, and Income Inequality in a Post-COVID World

Ben's Blog

Economic inequality and opportunities for job growth are directly correlated with overall spending levels on R&D and with the geographic concentration (or distribution) or those dollars — both public funding (government) and private (as with VC). As noted above, government spending on R&D has fallen and at the same time U.S.

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ITSEF Video: How Global Competition Has Changed and the Critical Role of Venture Capital in America’s Growth Economy

Pascal's View

Global Competition and the Critical Role of Venture Capital in America’s Growth Economy. Gururaj “Desh” Deshpande, Chairman Sparta Group, LLC and Lesa Mitchell, VP Advancing Innovation, Kauffman Foundation, at the IT Security Entrepreneurs’ Forum held at Stanford University on March 18, 2009.

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A Guide to Funding a Business in the U.K.

Up and Running

The process of securing funding for your business—whatever stage you’re at or field you’re in—can be challenging and stressful. It’s no secret that access to mainstream credit and lending facilities has dried up significantly since the onset of the financial crisis in 2007. Venture capital and angel investors. In the U.K.,

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Taking Silicon Valley’s Innovation Message to Washington: A Special Event on Cyber Security at the National Press Club June 25th Sponsored by the Security Innovation Network

Pascal's View

  Through Levensohn Venture Partners' involvement as the lead venture sponsor of the IT Security Entrepreneurs' Forum (ITSEF) since its inception in 2007, and through my personal initiatives advocating public policy solutions to address cyber security issues, I have had some positive impact in increasing awareness of this problem. 

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8 Ways to Recession-Proof Your Programming Career

Software By Rob

has been in recession since December of 2007. Work for a “Recession-Proof&# Company Granted, no company is completely recession-proof, but sectors like health care, pharmaceuticals, defense, government, and consumer staples do well in good or bad times. Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed.