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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

Both Sides of the Table

On December 3rd Brad Feld wrote a one paragraph blog post titled “ Raising Venture Capital &# in which he linked to my blog. The Original Post (after the jump): Venture Capital, By Mark Suster (December 2nd, 2006). I don’t plan to write the authoritative venture capital blog, just some anecdotes.

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Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 3: The Best Defense is a Good IP Strategy

Steve Blank

The assets you can protect may include your “core technology&# like source code, hardware designs, architectures, processes, formulas. Copyright gives you the right to prevent others from copying, distributing or making derivatives of your work. Posted in Technology, Venture Capital. Copyright.

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boldstart 2018 recap and what’s hot in enterprise 2019

BeyondVC

Still in second inning for enterprise move to cloud : Regardless of what economic cycle we endure, the Fortune 500 march to a cloud-native architecture will continue. While developers can now spin up applications faster than ever before, one of the downsides is the complexity of managing these distributed applications and technologies.

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The future of service marketplaces is AI

VC Cafe

Every industry that requires humans to create original work—from social media to gaming, advertising to architecture, coding to graphic design, product design to law, marketing to sales—is up for reinvention. Generative AI is well on the way to becoming not just faster and cheaper, but better in some cases than what humans create by hand.

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Watching Larry Ellison become Larry Ellison — The DNA of a Winner

Steve Blank

Larry had the DNA I’ve seen common with all the successful entrepreneurs I’ve backed in my 25 years of Venture Capital work—only he had a more exaggerated case than most. Being distributed/network ready (even though Ethernet was just barely coming into use in the enterprise). Filed under: Technology , Venture Capital.

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10+ Trends: Recap of 2011 and What’s Next…

thebarefootvc

Apple became the most valuable company in the world (measured by market capitalization) in August by offering simple, attractive design that made technology invisible to the user. Universities are also creating more interdisciplinary programs in order to encourage this collaboration. What’s Next in 2012….

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Why Trying To Find A Technical Co-Founder Will Almost Always Fail

www.cscyphers.com

Or massively distributed data persistence systems and algorithms. Enterprise Architecture (5). Adventures In Venture Capitalism. Even if you have to pay them, it’s worth it given the number of qualified attendees that will probably show up. If someone were trying to hire me, hold a meet up on Hadoop. Categories.