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The Enterprise Strikes Back

BeyondVC

Every large enterprise is a software company which means developer productivity is paramount. New architectures = new attack vectors and security needs to be reimagined. What Pivotal understood early is that there is no digital transformation and agile application development without infrastructure spend.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

Our guest this week on #TWiVC was Dana Settle , partner at Greycroft Partners , a venture capital firm with offices in New York and Los Angeles. In the show we talked about why this is important to mobile application developers. Lookout – SaaS provider of security and data back-up services for smart phones.

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Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO

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If you haven’t noticed from my web site or blog, I work as a web applications developer and a consulting CTO. Preserve your equity by using a consulting CTO to ramp up your company before securing early-stage financing and hiring a permanent technology partner. third party to vet or manage&# your development team.

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From Agency to Enterprise Software: The Evolution of Buddy Media

This is going to be BIG.

I decided to go back through the Wayback Machine to figure out what Buddy has called itself over the years: 7/27/2007 – Application Developer: Buddy Media is the leading developer of applications for the emerging new media platforms, including Facebook, MySpace and other social media sites.

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In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

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Over the past two years, one of the most influential venture-capital firms has turned the usual rules of start-up investing on its head. In the early days of venture capital, when money was scarce, entrepreneurs often gave up control of their company in exchange for their first investment funds. LUBLIN And SPENCER E.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter March 2011 Edition

VC Cafe

Broadcom Corporation, a global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications, is acquiring Provigent, an Israeli company which develops system-on-a-chip products that enable wireless system vendors to deliver broadband wireless backhaul systems to network operators. DELL INAUGURATES ISRAELI R&D CENTER, DOUBLES WORKERS.

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

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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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