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The Enterprise Strikes Back

BeyondVC

Look at the Dropbox IPO which priced above its initial value and came out white hot at the end of one of the worst weeks in stock market performance. My view is that we will see many more of these application layer companies go public in the next couple of years and that will be awesome for sure.

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9 Startups That Made Life Better In 2014

ReadWriteStart

Docker is an open platform designed to let developers and sysadmins build, ship and run distributed apps from anywhere. It promises to revolutionize the way developers and operation teams work, aiming to make application development for the cloud less of a nightmare.

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In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

online.wsj.com

Virtual Stock Exchange. Stock Quotes. Andreessen Horowitz is telling entrepreneurs it prefers situations where the founders have controlling stakes, reckoning that theyll be better able to resist outside distraction and focus on making great products. MarketWatch. SmartMoney. SmartMoney. AllThingsDigital. AllThingsDigital.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

But just to clarify a couple points, 24-hours into the storm: Yes,NET developers are great at what they do. It’s the most modern platform for application development on the planet. Microsoft has always produced the best tools for building internal business applications, and.NET is their masterpiece.

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