BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

will be a great fit with the Salesforce marketing cloud. Natalie Diggins (Neustar, ex-VP Cloud Platform/DevOps), Francesca Krihely (MongoDB, Dir. While the cloud wars, AI, automation, and digital transformation dominated the enterprise headlines in 2018, we have to remember that we are still early in the cycle.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2019

Official SXSW Panels and Speakers SXSW Badge Required Watch Out Silicon Valley: Rising LATAM Tech Scene Watch Out Silicon Valley: Rising LATAM Tech Scene MAR 8, 2019 | 12:30PM?—?1:30PM Startups are leveraging the cutting edge in terms of technology, offering solutions build with AI, block chain, and cloud computing.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

It’s not zero calories but with the right board the benefits should far outweigh the time and emotional costs. If you’re a super experienced Silicon Valley CEO with a billion-dollar exit?—?probably. If you get a smart person on the board?—?just just having a sparring partner with a vested interest in your success can be useful.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2020

That’s easily 5G, which is going to be a major catalyst in the adoption of computer vision, as it unlocks the ability to run very complex AI models in the cloud, which was never before possible. However, we’ve just started to see a decrease in GPU cost due to compute farms buying up graphics cards from failed crypto miners.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

We kept talking, with Steve asking “How long are you staying in Silicon Valley?” When I told him, “two more days,” he asked, “Are you interested in meeting with venture firms in the Valley?”

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Austin Startup

MARCH 19, 2017

Talent in Austin’s isn’t just more affordable, it’s easier to retain talent because they are less likely to get poached by the hot startup in Silicon Valley. Indeed.com said that Austin is the best place for a software engineer to get a job where his paycheck goes the farthest compared to the cost of living.

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The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Nic Brisbourne explains how the falling cost of doing business in tech is making space for thriving regional ecosystems, calling for better local funds in these new emerging hubs. At the same time we have seen the start-up ecosystems in New York, London and Berlin emerge as meaningful competitors to Silicon Valley.

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 25, 2011

On Friday Silicon Valley Bank released a survey of 375 executives at startup technology companies in the 4 core venture capital investment sectors – Software/Internet, Hardware, Life Science, and Cleantech. In fact, the main competitive advantage that these startup executives see for doing business overseas is cost. Are Bullish.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

The new paradigm, driven by disruptive technologies, cloud-served supercomputing, and the new generation of young adults with global empathy, is partnering and giving something now for a competitive advantage in the future. Learn by experimenting in low-cost and iterative ways. This is the new world of do-it-yourself (DIY) prototyping.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2014

The new paradigm, driven by disruptive technologies, cloud-served supercomputing, and the new generation of young adults with global empathy, is partnering and giving something now for a competitive advantage in the future. Learn by experimenting in low-cost and iterative ways. This is the new world of prototyping.

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David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

Most of the other VC firms with a history of picking unicorns have significantly benefited from being based in Silicon Valley, having much larger investment teams, and having multi-decade Tier-1 reputations, which has led to them seeing most of the best deals in the market. – Incubating companies.

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David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

Most of the other VC firms with a history of picking unicorns have significantly benefited from being based in Silicon Valley, having much larger investment teams, and having multi-decade Tier-1 reputations, which has led to them seeing most of the best deals in the market. – Incubating companies.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 1, 2011

I wasn't convinced about the assumptions of the business - there are too many gaps and flawed assumptions around the source and the cost of the data upon which the product is built. 1M/1M will be working with Microsoft in helping entrepreneurs prepare for these grants. I advised Rahul to study Epocrates as a model.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 30, 2014

It promises to revolutionize the way developers and operation teams work, aiming to make application development for the cloud less of a nightmare. But the software has strong support from top cloud providers, including Amazon and Google, and still looks like a favorite to simplify the development of cloud apps.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

For the uninitiated, Zoho introduced a CRM system that was one-tenth the price of Salesforce.com and penetrated the lower end of the market using an Indian cost structure. Techcello Next, Ram Kumar, also from Chennai, India, discussed Techcello , a multi-tenant SaaS framework for moving applications from.NET to a cloud architecture.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 14, 2011

I liked this venture very much and see the basic framework of using the Indian cost structure to provide SaaS products that are competitive in terms of performance and functionality at drastically lower prices as a massive opportunity for Indian entrepreneurs to go after. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes.

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OnlyOnce

JANUARY 2, 2011

Cloud computing is another great example here of how companies are doing more with less. Inflation may seem like a neutral thing for a business – your costs may be going up, but your revenue should be going up as well, right? And yes, it’s a lot more fun to travel to Europe when a latte costs you $4, not $8.

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 30, 2013

Angel investing has grown – wealth creation in the internet bubble massively increased the number of angel investors, particularly outside Silicon Valley. Startup costs have fallen – open source software and cloud computing have driven startup costs down by a factor of 10.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2015

The new paradigm, driven by disruptive technologies, cloud-served supercomputing, and the new generation of young adults with global empathy, is partnering and giving something now for a competitive advantage in the future. Learn by experimenting in low-cost and iterative ways. This is the new world of prototyping.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 2, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, August 2, 2008 Paul Graham on fundraising I have found no better primer on the current realities of starting a new technology company in a startup hub like Silicon Valley than Paul Grahams essays. but rest assured they would be. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2015

Let me take you back just 10 years ago to 2005 in Silicon Valley where I returned after 11 years of living in Europe. If you are a 20-something tech entrepreneur you could be forgiven for thinking that seed-stage investors, Angellist Syndicates and widely available angel money always existed. It is, of course, a very recent phenomenon.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Unfortunately, the time-consuming process of check writing is simply accepted as the cost of doing business — which can quickly add up. By applying Silicon Valley principles to Wall Street practices, fintechs have abstracted the actual payments process into simple, discreet API call. We’ve made a problem.

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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. Great lifestyle, great cost of living, motivated people and only the crap weather on the negative side. They have the same trade-off decisions that you do about packing up and moving to Silicon Valley vs. staying and building locally.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

FitzGerald is the co-founder and CEO of Submittable , a cloud-based submission platform used by thousands of publishers for accepting and curating digital content. But we did eventually raise capital outside Silicon Valley. it costs very little and it's the truest way to get feedback. This is not a great feeling.).

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. About Bessemer Venture Partners: Bessemer Venture Partners is a global investment group with offices in Silicon Valley, Boston, New York, Mumbai, and Tel Aviv. Cloud Computing. (1). Cracking The Code.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

It is becoming easier and cheaper for companies to bring products to market, leveraging free and open source software , cloud computing, open social data (Facebook, OpenSocial ), and open distribution (AdWords, SEO). Lean startups have the ability to use this commodity stack to lower costs and, more importantly, reduce time to market.

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 16, 2006

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. A couple weeks ago, I attended the 13th Silicon Valley Annual VC/Entrepreneur luncheon organized by NVCA. Cloud Computing. (1). Unveilling of the Bessemer's 10 laws of Cloud Comp. My Investments.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

We had endless arguments internally about what features it should include, how the avatars should look, and how much it should cost. Just load them all in and choose a low cost-per-click. Seems like a fairly low-cost method of gauging customer interest for a would-be product. We finally settled on a $1.99 I used to use $.05,

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 28, 2006

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. The bi-weekly podcasts feature interviews of entrepreneurs and silicon Valley leaders. VentureCast : Bi-weekly anecdotes on the Silicon Valley venture world. Cloud Computing. (1). My Investments.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 20, 2023

So when we looked at our sort of digital transformation surveys of three, four years ago, cost was 70% of the focus, right? Um, and that's because it was the most measurable part and because a lot of the early customer journeys were very tractable to cost. Now that data, the data you need, you know, does need to be in the cloud, right?

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

StrongSalt also lowers costs for companies by removing friction from encryption while making it accessible for all developers via the API platform. Since raising $3 million in seed funding in September , StrongSalt announced its Open Privacy application for searching and sharing encrypted data in cloud services and enterprise applications.

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Steve Blank

JULY 29, 2016

The future is here it’s just distributed unevenly – Silicon Valley view of tech adoption. and satellites with synthetic aperture radar that can see through clouds and at night are able to pinpoint the strike group and carrier 24/7. Politics: In Silicon Valley most startups fail.

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readwrite.com

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

There’s a lot of talk in Silicon Valley about the decline of consumer Internet companies and the rising interest in companies that sell software to enterprises. And nobody is loving this more than Aaron Levie, the 27-year-old co-founder and CEO of Box, which sells cloud-based data storage and collaboration software to enterprises.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

The second wave of companies were mainly concentrated in Silicon Valley, and coincided with the rise of platforms (Google, Facebook, etc.) At the same time, early-stage companies are thinking beyond the high prices of Silicon Valley to put down roots and find financing and growth partners. After more than eight years?—?they’ve

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Before this South Korean wonder spread across the globe I had written about a trend in global audiences that exists when the costs of production are nearly zero and the costs of distribution are also nearly free. think Amazon) and therefore hits with high production costs were more suited to the medium. billion views.

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thebarefootvc

AUGUST 31, 2018

In its annual report issued this week, the RBI also noted it is exploring the issuance of digital currency to save costs related printing paper money. Dfinity, an ambitious new protocol for blockchain based cloud computing, raised over $100M in pre-sale funding from Silicon Valley investors including a16z Crypto.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

As you know, the Google productivity apps portfolio is getting very good traction within enterprises, and through our Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing series , we've heard from various CIOs who are moving from Lotus Notes or Microsoft Exchange to Google's Office suite. One of the primary drivers of the switch is cost.

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