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Bad returns be damned: Venture capital fundraising jumps 31 percent in U.S

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Quickly Unpacking Microsoft’s Acquisition Of GitHub

Haystack

Not yet profitable but invaluable to developers worldwide, the decade-old company bootstrapped, differentiated from formidable competitors GitLab and Atlassian’s BitBucket, weathered leadership upheavals, and eventually ingested lots of venture capital which helped them weather the challenges they faced.

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The Microsoft Accelerator, round 2!

David Cohen

Most of those companies from the Kinect program are doing great, and many have gone on to raise venture capital or angel financing since the program ended. The second Microsoft Accelerator program is focused on Windows Azure began Monday.

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FinTech Innovation Lab Launch Event – June 2, 2011

David Teten

Adrian Kunzle, Head of Firmwide Engineering & Architecture (CTO), JP Morgan Chase. Packaged platforms (Force.com/EC2/Azure) are much more likely to succeed than a pure infrastructure play. Java/Azure appliances will come in. Does R&D/biz dev services for company. 15 yrs at MS. DAVIS: What is the #1 emerging trend?

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The Startup Pivot

Reid Hoffman

Microsoft went from MS-DOS to Windows to Office to many new reinventions, including Azure. This pivot fundamentally changes your required organizational competencies, from Sales and Marketing to Engineering, Operations, and Support. We had engineering specialists and felt we had this unique technology.

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Microsoft’s Bing Fund will give online startups cash, advice, and discounts

venturebeat.com

Venture capital. Additionally, Microsoft will provide its startups with four to eight months of advice, design and development help, discounted access to Microsoft’s Azure Data Marketplace APIs, and introductions to potential partners or customers. From $1.5B Editor’s picks. Featured stories. Cloud services.

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Viola Private Equity Pumps $7 Million into Zend

VC Cafe

Zend was originally set up by founders Andi Gutmans and Zeev Suraski who were key contributors to PHP and the creators of the core PHP scripting engine, the Zend Engine. As a result of this round, Harel Beit-On, Founder and General Partner at Viola Private Equity will be joining Zend’s board of directors.