VC Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2021

The move to remote work forced quick adoption of cloud technology and tools that were once having difficulties selling to large corporates, saw explosive growth – from Zoom to Hopin, new unicorns were born in record time. I also believe that there was a fundamental change in consumer behaviour. Fortnite alone made $1.8

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Technical Review Audio Forecast Social Media 207

Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 9, 2020

Why Startup Communities are Essential written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Brad Feld, c0-author of a new book The Startup Community Way: Evolving an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem. What makes a startup community? What makes a startup community? *

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Many observers of the venture capital industry have questioned whether its best days are behind it. Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. Morning in VC.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2023

Live operations refer to the ongoing management and maintenance of a game after its initial launch, and can include things like events, updates, and community management. For Remagine Ventures II (launching in 2023), we’re expanding our investment coverage geographically and will start investing in UK / Europe as well.

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David Teten

AUGUST 15, 2013

The most common ways in which the Fortune 500 are working with the startup community at scale is through corporate VC arms, contests, packages of benefits geared to startups, and accelerator programs. I worked with our intern team to look for the Fortune 500 companies making the strongest effort to reach out to the tech startup community.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

The book has been shepherded and edited by a great Japanese VC at Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Venture Capital, Takashi Tsutsumi, with help from Masato Iino. These kinds of success cases continue to happen in Japan’s startup community and in corporations that have to innovate to remain competitive in the global market.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 16, 2012

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Blablacar is one such example of innovation: with a fast growing community of 1.6m Cloud Computing. (1). Venture Capital. (3). Unveilling of the Bessemer's 10 laws of Cloud Comp.

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Software Review Europe Technical Review Spain 95

Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2019

Grab a group of friends and tour the latest and greatest of Austin’s startup community. 1:30PM HILTON AUSTIN DOWNTOWN, SALON K SIMÓN BORRERO, Rappi RODOLFO GONZALEZ, Foundation Capital COURTNEY MCCOLGAN, Runa HR DANIEL VOGEL, Bitso Latin American startups are attracting a record amount of venture capital funding.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 6, 2018

We co-founded MState (fka hyperfab, read Coindesk article ) with Rob Bailey to help bring enterprise company building expertise and Fortune 500 connections to the blockchain community. Tied to this will be a need for a hybrid, cloud/on-prem deployment and we are excited about portfolio companies like replicated that play to this future.

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Haystack

JUNE 5, 2018

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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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 21, 2014

And finally, in Darwinian fashion, competition for market share amongst the venture capitalists as a result of increased numbers of angel investment syndicates will clear the decks of the low-value add venture capital dollars. All of these attributes will effectively benefit the entrepreneurial community.

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Entrepreneur Startup Balance Sheet Non-Compete 210

Cracking the Code

AUGUST 3, 2011

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. A short interview on Bloomberg about where I see venture opportunities in Europe. Let me show other source that may be good for community. Cloud Computing. (1). Venture Capital. (3).

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VC Cafe

JUNE 22, 2010

V odafone’s venture capital arm made a strategic minority investment in Israeli startup Perfecto Mobile , joining previous backers Carmel Ventures and Vertex Venture Capital who invested $7 million ten months ago. Since its inception in 2006, Perfecto Mobile has raised approximately $19 million.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 13, 2018

Support the ATX Startup Community by voting for this selection of panels featuring Austinites. Once submitted, the community is allowed to chime in and vote on what topics capture their interest. Once submitted, the community is allowed to chime in and vote on what topics capture their interest. We reached out to the M.io

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Contributors include dozens of TechStars mentors and founder alumni, including Dharmesh Shah the founder and CEO of HubSpot and the curator of the OnStartups blog and community. The issue can be clouded sometimes when one of the founders is investing significant cash into the enterprise. Raise venture capital funding?

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Earlier this year, I was on a panel with Guy Podjarny, Snyk’s founder, at SaaStock Remote to discuss how the team’s community-driven freemium approach led to the company’s stellar growth. The value of freemium is that you want that use case to generate a community. This makes it hard to build a community of users and advocates.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

How to outsource everything to the cloud (except yourself) – [link]. How to outsource everything to the cloud (except yourself) – [link]. Venture capital remains white boys club – [link]. What Good Does Design Do For Business? – [link]. – [link]. Getting Steve Jobs Wrong – [link].

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Seattle should be the envy of any non Silicon Valley tech community in the country. And that is precisely my thoughts for Seattle and what I plan to deliver on Thursday night: Which few key community leaders are going to step up and get those neurons properly firing and connected? My recipe for Seattle or your community: 1.

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Seattle Silicon Valley Technical Review Los Angeles 317

Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Our community colleges are excellent as well, including the Alamo Colleges, Austin Community College, the Dallas College and the Lone Star Community College. In San Antonio we take great pride in our diverse, artistic, affordable and culturally rich community filled with a young and burgeoning creative class workforce.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 15, 2019

As a venture capitalist, I know there’s incredible excitement around quantum computing. Once again, we see a bias that plagues the tech community: software overshadowing hardware. Therefore, experts project only 20% of all data will be stored in data centers and the cloud by 2025, down from 80% currently.

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Software Artificial Inteligence Cloud Security 125

Gust

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Today, it can sign one deal with a cloud service provider such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) to replace all of the above. This is often referred to in the creative community as a “ work-for-hire agreement.”. After eliminating all of these types of assets, what remains? Intellectual property.

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Genuine VC

JANUARY 3, 2013

Look back to the reasons why there was a Cambrian explosion of seed funding in the first place – a dramatic reduction in the initial capital requirements to launch a new company because of cloud hosting infrastructure, social graph distribution platforms, open source and low-cost development tools/methods, etc.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 12, 2016

The Quantopian site is a community platform which invites prospective hedge fund managers to make use of its infrastructure and data to develop algorithms that are used in choosing and managing investments. A mobile wallet cloud-based platform is offered by Paydiant Inc. It has raised over $35 million in venture capital funds.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

This three day conference has become the “must-attend” event for anyone who is active or new to the startup-community. Immerse yourself in the tech community at Techweek. Venture Summit Silicon Valley is taking place at the dynamic new Draper University, where participants can easily meet up, socially network, and make deals happen.

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VC Cafe

JULY 21, 2020

In the past I’ve covered the rise of corporate venture capital and the growing number of Fortune 500 companies who are actively launching CVC arms or investing in startups/funds. Another big commercial area is Google Cloud for startups. Google Cloud or Google Compute). But investing is only part of the picture.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2021

After covering Google startup outreach and support (from first hand experience), today I’m happy to add Amazon and AWS, by looking into the variety of ways startups can engage with the commerce and cloud giant. The Alexa Fund also provides up to $200 million in venture capital funding to fuel voice technology innovation.

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Technical Review Startup Venture Capital Incubator 174

Cracking the Code

JANUARY 28, 2008

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Wize provides consumers with a unique way to leverage the online wisdom by aggregating the opinions of millions of users and by letting people ask questions about a specific product or need to the Wize community.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

AngelList is a community. The community helps you get intros. I don't think AL is biased in any one direction, rather your just acting as the community in between. Most indices are cap-weighted - more in line with a concentrated portfolio (i.e. 80% of the weight of the S&P 500 is held in the largest 50 stocks).

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

It's a prison that limits your ambition, clouds the path ahead of you so you don’t even know what jobs are out there, and keeps you in line with everyone else--mindlessly marching to careers in banking, law, consulting and accounting. Join communities of innovators. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology nextNY.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2011

Yesterday I wrote Part 1 of the series on the changes to the software industry over the past decade that has led to changes in the venture capital industry itself. Open cloud led by Amazon with their AWS services drove total operating costs down by 90%. The LP Community Hasn’t Yet Caught Up.

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Venture Capital Software LP Early Stage 296

Board Effect

JUNE 10, 2019

In some areas, communities offer a business incubator that offers assistance to startups, such as free business space, consulting and seed funding. These services may be provided in conjunction with a university, by community development departments or by large companies.

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Small Business Administration SBA Startup Database 70

Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The servers are in the cloud, his advertising sales is with Google, etc. In some strange way, a big part of his competitive advantage is that he is able to outsource everything and maintain such a low cost structure. &# Go direct and network your way to the people you need to meet or find them directly in the local community.

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Software Review Offshore Startup Boston 65

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 30, 2014

Think of it as a cross between a landlord, summer camp, and venture-capital firm. In their minds, the companies they’ve just created from scratch are the future of innovation, built around a core of community. It then transfers the data to a smartphone, and from there, to the cloud, where it’s crunched and analyzed.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 12, 2017

We are glad that Capital Factory is in Dallas and thrilled to see that they are also community builders who grow through collaboration.” According to Pitchbook, Capital Factory has been the most active investor in Texas since 2013. Perot Jain, LP is an early stage venture capital firm founded by Ross Perot Jr.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Scott is also known as the founder and CEO of Behance, an online design community that became the essential showcase for design work around the world. Scott remained at Adobe, managing the deep integration of Behance into the Adobe Creative Cloud and leading Adobe’s innovative mobile product efforts.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

I am excited to share the news of First Round Capital 's recent investment in cloud-to-cloud backup service Backupify. Not only were they files in the cloud, but they had all sorts of attached metadata like tags, comments, and groupings that didn't come in a neatly packaged desktop file. Flickr has an API. S3 has an API.

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Cloud Part-Time VPE API Louisville 112

thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

Women Rising: Microfinance institutions have known for years that women have higher repayment rates than men and that women are more likely to invest the borrowed capital back into their families and local communities. Nothing seems impossible anymore.

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