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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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$43.2 Million That Can Help You

Growthink Blog

Now that summer is officially over, venture capital activity is picking up. I just reviewed the many companies who recently raised venture capital with an eye towards those that are offering products and services that could benefit other entrepreneurs and business owners. Collectively these companies just raised $43.2

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

venturebeat.com

Venture capital. Streaming media. Social media. 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. Acquisition. Developers.

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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning– Explained

Steve Blank

Programs/applications can be games, social media, office applications, missile guidance systems, bitcoin mining, or even operating systems e.g. Linux, Windows, IOS. Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure) for both training machine learning models and deploying inferences. We’re Just Getting Started.

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FinTech Innovation Lab Launch Event – June 2, 2011

David Teten

How are you allowing employees to interact with social media? LYONS: We allow them to use social media on their personal devices (laughter). Packaged platforms (Force.com/EC2/Azure) are much more likely to succeed than a pure infrastructure play. Java/Azure appliances will come in. Appliances will go into the enterprise.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Windows Azure. Media Temple. Social Media Tracking/Marketing. analytics for social media and online. social media and email marketing. Boilerplate Venture Funding Documents. National Venture Capital Association â??

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Joining Get Satisfaction

Venture Chronicles

I moved through marketing and sales role, and then venture capital to general management but all along the way I missed the hands on aspect of product and connection of products to people. Tags: Get Satisfaction Azure Capital First Round OATV Social CRM.

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