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Our year in review: a look back and ahead

Version One Ventures

We made 3 new investments: Figure 1 , a photo-sharing network for medical professionals; Upverter , a cloud-based hardware engineering platform; and one unannounced investment. This not only doubled our size, but also bolstered our physical presence in Silicon Valley. 2013 was busy for Version One. Today and tomorrow.

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The Consumerization of Business Software ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

I’m not the first person to describe this trend, and my prior background has been primarily as a consumer web guy more than in B2B companies. The classic delineations of web products for business and consumer (“enterprise” direct selling, on premise vs cloud, etc) are only getting blurrier. Author howerl.

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Cornerstone OnDemand CEO Adam Miller shares how he built a $2 billion cloud startup from LA

The Next Web

When cloud services company Cornerstone OnDemand got its start in Los Angeles in 1999, the odds were against it. Improbably, founder and CEO Adam Miller and his partners soldiered on to eventually build a $2 billion+ cloud company. Three months after getting up and running, the tech bubble burst and all the money dried up.

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What Enterprise Can Learn From The Gig Economy

YoungUpstarts

Considering how businesses have been dealing with B2B payment since — well, the beginning of modern society — you’d expect a much better solution to have emerged a long ago. The gig economy’s payment problems dwarfed those of any regular organization’s B2B payment woes. We’ve made a problem.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

12- Solve a problem in international B2B payments. With Remitr I saw that opportunity to solve a problem in international B2B payments that was crying for a technology-enabled solution and decided to plunge into it with my co-founding team. This was followed by moderate success in starting my own cloud-based HR software.

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The Lean Startup Workshop - now an O'Reilly Master Class

Startup Lessons Learned

Using examples drawn from his own experiences in the startup hub of Silicon Valley, Eric Ries unravels the myths and misconceptions that guide most startups, and paints a picture of a new way forward for the industry. We changed our model to B2B and adopted Agile around 2002. May 14, 2009 5:23 AM David said. It was a disaster.

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Thinking Ahead to 2014

Venture Chronicles

When you are on a mobile device using cloud-based services there is something transformational in play, which is that not only are you bypassing many of the controls that dictate how you use apps but you are also using a network that is not under the control of your company. 1) Mobile creates clash of user experiences.