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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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FinTech Innovation Lab Launch Event – June 2, 2011

David Teten

The trick is delivering business insights over this channel: use social networks to support relationship management. BROWN: Impersonation on social networks is a big problem. Social networking is governed by SEC 17a4, and SEC hasn’t opined on this. Java/Azure appliances will come in.

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

venturebeat.com

Venture capital. Social media. Social networking. Social games. 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.

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The Startup Pivot

Reid Hoffman

Microsoft went from MS-DOS to Windows to Office to many new reinventions, including Azure. I’m not saying this because I’m trying to pump up the venture capital industry; it’s based on my experiences as an entrepreneur, where I had great VC partners (and some not so great ones). Apple went from Apple II to the Macintosh to iOS.

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

blog.expensify.com

They write everything from assembly to jQuery, on PCs to mobile phones, doing hard core computer graphics to high level social networking. How can we spin up our SharePoint enabled Web Parts which are Windows Phone Capable to be deployed on Azure? I’m involved in one startup.NET/Azure is the best fit.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Windows Azure. Social networking. Social/Sharing. Create your own social network. free enterprise social network. Boilerplate Venture Funding Documents. National Venture Capital Association â??