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Why We Shouldn’t Be In Love With Startups 

ReadWriteStart

Unfortunately, however, our love affair with startups is unfounded, especially as it relates to those who may be looking to provide, market to or target their product/service to the startup segment. All while the majority of the economy is driven greatly by boring industries often owned by private equity, not venture capital.

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

www.geekwire.com

VENTURE CAPITAL. You are here: Home / Startups / Bad returns be damned: Venture capital fundraising jumps 31 percent in U.S. Bad returns be damned: Venture capital fundraising jumps 31 percent in U.S. Filed Under: Startups , Tech Tagged With: Madrona , Startups , Tech , Venture capital.

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Why We Shouldn’t Be In Love With Startups 

ReadWriteStart

Unfortunately, however, our love affair with startups is unfounded, especially as it relates to those who may be looking to provide, market to or target their product/service to the startup segment. All while the majority of the economy is driven greatly by boring industries often owned by private equity, not venture capital.

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The Enterprise Strikes Back

BeyondVC

While one of the darlings of the last 10 years, Facebook, is getting pummeled, the enterprise market is back in the spotlight. 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. The real story in my mind is about what’s next.

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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning– Explained

Steve Blank

But they herald a sea change in what computers are capable of doing, how they do it, and what hardware and software is needed to do it. Classic Computers – Software Updates, New Features. Now open-source code libraries and developer tools allow organizations to use and build upon the work of external communities.

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

blog.expensify.com

Also, I would like to point out the canned arguments that typically spew from.NET developers about “enterprise” platforms (which is what MS beats them over the head with when they bitch about expense). While.NET can no doubt service the enterprise market, so can everybody else. March 25, 2011 at 2:51 pm. Sjoerd Franken.

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