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Rally Software Acquired By CA Technologies for $480 Million

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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. The story starts in 2007 with the founding of EFCO , which Ryan and I spearheaded and had a huge punch line in 2013 when Rally Made a Gift of $1.3 We weren’t the first investor in Rally.

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Mattermark – An Example of How We Decide to Invest

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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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The Price of Free is Actually Too High

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.” The article ends with a parallel quote from Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the World Wide Web. The web that many connected to years ago is not what new users will find today. The fact that power is concentrated among so few companies has made it possible to weaponize the web at scale.”.

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A Little Techstars Video History

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This is the original promotion video for the first Techstars program, filmed at the end of 2006 and apparently uploaded to Youtube on January 14, 2007. The web is just amazing. I did a search and came up with a few, but also stumbled upon this beauty. Following are my comments on the video. Look how young David Cohen looks.

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Slice of Lime Celebrates 10 Years and Focuses on User Interface Design

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As some of you may know, we made a modest investment in Slice of Lime in 2007. Slice of Lime has done web strategy, design, and development work for many of the companies we’ve invested in over the years including BigDoor , BrightLeaf , and Orbotix (new site launching soon) as well as our own Foundry Group website.

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What Seems Like A Fundamental Flaw in Microsoft Outlook Social Connector

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I wrote a post in 2007 titled Social Networks In Obvious Places that catalyzed me to thing harder about this as an investor. There is no question in my mind that the web (or the cloud if you like) is your friend in this scenario. I’ve been obsessed with the notion of email as the ultimate social network for a while.

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The Magic of Email Conversations

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A conversation view existed in Outlook 2007 but it sucked. Suddenly, it’s everywhere. It started being talked about a few years ago when it threaded conversations appeared as a core feature of Gmail.

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