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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Exciting Companies Lined Up For Microsoft Startup Grant Finals

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Bizosys Technologies, a Bangalore, India based software engineering company was founded in 2009. In fact, they generated $100k in revenues over the last year, since they first pitched at one of our roundtables. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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IPO Anxiety - East Coast Version (part 1: MA)

Seeing Both Sides

Bill Gurley’s excellent piece on Silicon Valley IPO Anxiety inspired me to take a companion look at the East Coast, particularly Massachusetts and New York, and evaluate the health of the local IPO economy and prospective pipeline. Today, I'll cover Massachusetts; tomorrow, New York. Massachusetts. 2009 Revenue (mn).

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: Akamai

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Incorporated in 1998 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the company’s network of over 100,000 globally distributed servers provides an infrastructure layer that accelerates the distribution and delivery of content, media and applications. The chart below shows the company’s strong financial performance from 2009 to the present. Market Cap.

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Top Social Media Measurement and Tracking Tools

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2009 Eddie and Ozzie Awards Winners. Social media audiences have effectively become another universe of prospects to tap, which means measurement and tracking is essential to yielding from these visitors both direct and indirect revenue. Massachusetts. Massachusetts. . --> Suppliers. Webinars Events. Industry Events.

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Software Startup Myths Debunked

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Go ahead and laugh, but over 95% of Moon River Software’s revenue this year has been from consulting services. The software I sell has made up less than 5% of total revenue in the past 12 months. In Massachusetts for example, there are 82,007 millionaires. 1M Shashank says: November 2, 2009 at 6:12 am Hi Mike.

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Venture Capital is Back But Moving Up-Stage

Startup Professionals Musings

billion to work across 731 financing deals with US startups, a 50% increase over Q1 2009. To me, this indicates that venture capitalists (VCs) are looking for business, but they are clearly moving away from early-stage (pre-revenue) deals. Massachusetts and NY states also have high numbers. First of all, investors put $5.9

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A Call to Arms on the IPO Malaise and Inaction

Seeing Both Sides

I used to hear from investment bankers that a company north of $100 million in revenue and consistently profitable can find a welcome public audience. In 2009, the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) made this topic their policy focus. They released a series of spot-on recommendations to help bring back the IPO market.

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