VC Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2023

Gaming is a sector that traditionally struggled to attract venture capital investment in the early days, as mentioned by Mitch Lasky and Blake Robbins in the Gamecraft podcast. What events sparked the major revolutions in business models and distribution? /1 billion in 2022.

Generative AI 103

Generative AI San Francisco Technical Review Europe 103

The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Most notably, the ground-breaking development and rapid global distribution of mRNA vaccines highlighted the speed and scale of technological advances to outsmart humanity’s most dire threats. The evolution of cloud computing has enabled public and private enterprises to track, analyze and adjust processes faster than ever before.

Artificial Inteligence 140

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Global Technology 140

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%. This led to an explosion in startups.

Venture Capital 296

Venture Capital Software LP Early Stage 296

The Next Web

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

Today, with the decentralising nature of the Internet, distributed cloud technology and a growing sentiment toward entrepreneurship, the global startup ecosystem has never been so dispersed. Move over Bangalore, there’s a new Indian metropolis evolving with its finger on the pulse of cloud, mobile and digital technologies.

North Carolina 168

North Carolina Technical Review Cyprus Raleigh 168

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.

Stealth 79

Stealth Advisory Board Cloud Virginia 79

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2019

He’ll be speaking at this year’s Lean Startup Conference , and also has a new book (for which I very happily wrote a short foreword) coming out next month: Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital and How to Get It. What is venture capital, really? And what does a venture capital firm do?

Lean 108

Lean Venture Capital Conversion IPO 108

BeyondVC

JANUARY 6, 2018

Keep this in the back of your mind as you think about the biggest transformation in enterprise tech; the re-platforming of corporate America from legacy to cloud/hybrid cloud and monolithic software apps to microservices driven development. This is a trend that kicked off over the last 2 years and will only accelerate in 2018.

Cloud 60

Cloud Cofounder Portfolio Advisory Board 60

Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2022

In 2021 venture capital funds invested over $2 billion in 90+ Quantum technology companies. A quantum network’s value comes from its ability to distribute entanglement. Quantum Cryptography/Quantum Key Distribution. Securing and validating Quantum Key Distribution is hard and it’s only one part of a cryptographic system.

Technology 436

Technology Algorithm Stealth Distribution 436

VC Cafe

MAY 23, 2023

As I mentioned in my post on the LLM Benchmarking , venture capital investment in AI startups was down 43% in Q1 2023. If Generative AI is truly a platform shift like the early days of mobile and cloud, think about the first generation of apps or cloud services. What else do we know?

Generative AI 165

Generative AI Artificial Inteligence ChatGPT API 165

David Teten

JULY 12, 2013

Distribute press releases on free sites like Free Press Release and PRLog.com. ff Venture Capital recently hosted an event in its offices to feature two of its portfolio companies: MovableInk and Parse.ly. For example, Mo.com interviews entrepreneurs from all industries to learn about small business experience and strategies.

PR 114

PR Public Relations Startup Technical Review 114

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 5, 2012

To be successful, a venture needs this laser focus. Most of the firms had some critical component that had something to do with using Web protocols or the cloud. Dining Circle runs in the cloud rather than the dedicated PCs that OpenTable.com provides to their restaurant customers. It is all about the Web.

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St. Louis Kansas City Technical Review Kansas 127

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 22, 2011

I have other areas of interest & competence such as cloud computing and document management given my background. Walmart in the cloud. The Cloud is the future at Amazon has an enormous lead. I try to invest in things that I know and that I believe I might have better knowledge and relationships than the masses of VCs.

Non-Compete 386

Non-Compete Startup Internet Cost 386

VC Cafe

MAY 12, 2016

Ironsource – Software Discovery, Distribution and Delivery Platform (Raised $123M). Taboola and Outbrain – Content distribution, discovery and recommendations (Raised approx. Jfrog – Binary Repository Solution and Software Distribution Social Platform (Raised $62M). 150M each).

Software Review 60

Software Review Analytics eCommerce 60

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 24, 2012

SyncBloc is a place that takes incredibly large files that are all stuck on your offline non-cloud service and helps you sync it with the cloud. It’s quite simple, which is when you had systems where you had limitations on distribution or transportation of products, it enabled you to operate with a certain cost structure.

Silicon Valley 204

Silicon Valley Software Review Internet Technical Review 204

Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 9, 2020

Prior to co-founding Foundry Group , he co-founded Mobius Venture Capital and, prior to that, founded Intensity Ventures. Brad is a writer and speaker on the topics of venture capital investing and entrepreneurship. What part does distributed work play in creating startup communities? Like this show?

Community 87

Community Startup Venture Capital Cofounder 87

Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

I happen to be fascinated by the history of the VC industry, and one of the things we discussed at a recent offsite are the common threads behind the rise and fall of great venture capital firms. How do you deal with a severely uneven distribution of investment success between individuals or groups of partners?

Silicon Valley 240

Silicon Valley Carried Interest Cofounder Boston 240

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Aptana Cloud (svn, IDE, php, java, rails etc…). Cloud Infrastructure. see the Libcloud -compatible cloud providers. cloud-based survey, free account. Cloud-based drawing tool. Cloud Services and Tools. s cloud solution.

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

David Teten

JULY 12, 2013

Distribute press releases on free sites like Free Press Release and PRLog.com. ff Venture Capital recently hosted an event in its offices to feature two of its portfolio companies: MovableInk and Parse.ly. For example, Mo.com interviews entrepreneurs from all industries to learn about small business experience and strategies.

PR 60

PR Public Relations Startup Technical Review 60

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

VP of Engineering, AppNexus - New York, NY "It's over a billion ad impressions a day, we got a full tank of venture capital, half a pack of cigarettes, the future of ad networks is dark, and we're wearing sunglasses." One thing is for certain — you must have experience dealing with large scale distributed applications.

Part-Time VPE 92

Part-Time VPE CTO Hire Engineer Sales 92

Hunter Walker

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

How personal opinions immediately cloud this topic, but how many new categories are evaluated with some marginal intellectual curiosity. Probably a correlation here with why there was more venture funding for golf tech than women’s fertility until very recently…. Thanks Logan!

Chicago 78

Chicago Venture Capital Miami Employee 78

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

interactions, widgets, effects Django – high-level Python framework Cappuccino – open source framework for app development Kodingen – cloud development environment, code editor, hosting service, collaboration platform.

Software Review 110

Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics 110

Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Since the term “cloud computing” was coined in 1996—at least as we have come to understand its meaning—the software as a service industry has exploded. We created UpKeep to fill this void—a cloud-based solution that was affordable for any size business.” – Ryan Chan, founder of UpKeep. venture capital.

Software Review 74

Software Review Software Delaware Forecast 74

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Want Venture Capital Funding? How PRWeb Helps Distribute Crap Into Google & News Sites – [link]. 20 Creative Business Card Designs | Pixel Clouds – [link]. What’s the secret to a great team? Barking Up The Wrong Tree – [link]. Here’s How | Forbes – [link].

Social Media 100

Social Media Small Business Central African Republic Design 100

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. Copyright is the right to control reproduction and distribution of original works of authorship fixed in tangible forms of expression. After eliminating all of these types of assets, what remains?

Intellectual Property 149

Intellectual Property Technical Review Software Review IP 149

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

What a pleasure that I got to spend an hour talking with both Om Malik (whom I’ve always respected his views) and Paul Jozefak , a venture capital partner at Neuhaus Partners in Germany (and formerly the head of Europe for SAP Ventures). 406 Ventures. Offers cloud-based web analytics software provider.

Venture Capital 225

Venture Capital Non-Compete Vertical Europe 225

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

For example, distribution to find new apps in a mobile Internet is tightly locked down by the oligopoly of Apple and Google. Distribution of media is tightly controlled by YouTube, Netflix, Facebook, Amazon and a handful of others. Our social graphs are locked in Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat. We’ll have to see how it all plays out.

Government 280

Government Distribution Stock United States 280

abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Our venture capital firm, Benchmark, has made four investments consistent with the “customer-first” theme. Brighter — Brighter is a cloud-based health insurance platform that seamlessly connects patients and doctors to dramatically improve the patient and provider experience while reducing costs for patient, provider and insurer.

Customer 59

Customer Technical Review Venture Capital Software Review 59

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 15, 2019

In healthcare, for example, a 2019 Accenture survey shows that two-thirds of executives believe that “DARQ” — distributed ledger, AI, extended reality, and quantum computing — technologies will transform their organizations. Other industry leaders would do well to follow suit with oving the software-obsessed tech industry.

Software 125

Software Artificial Inteligence Cloud Security 125

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 13, 2020

We’d like to thank KeyBank and G2 for providing some of the data used in the report - * It’s an amazing time to be a cloud entrepreneur in Europe. The European cloud ecosystem is growing much faster than anyone could have anticipated: last year, we predicted that it would take another three years for Europe to generate its first decacorn.

Europe 71

Europe Cloud Silicon Valley 71

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.

Seed Stage 166

Seed Stage Venture Capital Audience New York 166

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

Provides application performance management (APM) software solution that helps web sites manage distributed applications in high-volume production environments; features include: application mapping, transaction flow monitoring, code-level diagnostics, and cloud orchestration. Tags: This Week in Venture Capital.

IPO 236

IPO .Net Venture Capital Strategic Investors 236

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

One is explaining the world as it used to work: the importance of gatekeepers, the scarcity implied by limited distribution, and the resulting quality bar that the industry is so proud of. Mostly it is the time and expense required to create the means of distribution for that industry. It’s just taking some longer than others.

San Francisco 113

San Francisco Lean Technical Review Distribution 113

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Then came the rise of the private equity firms, the explosion of Venture Capital and more recently Corporate Venturing. Greater availability has led to a dramatic reduction in prices as providers find innovative ways to distribute their offerings. New sources of funding.

Private Equity 100

Private Equity Australia Security Venture Capital 100

OnlyOnce

DECEMBER 12, 2012

at Return Path is that we have been around longer than two of our Venture Capital funds. Fortunately for us, Fred led an investment in the company with his new fund, Union Square Ventures , even though his initial investment was via his first fund, Flatiron Partners. A New VC Ready to Go!

Venture Capital 75

Venture Capital Portfolio Distribution Cloud 75

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

They focus on helping content creators and app developers create, identify, package and distribute those meaningful video highlights in ways that help them reach more customers and generate more revenue. I was living in Sacramento and had worked in venture capital with Intel Capital and a Sacramento-based VC fund.

Sacramento 73

Sacramento San Jose Startup Distribution 73

Cracking the Code

MAY 15, 2008

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. This year, the panel included Steve Jurveston from DFJ, Vinod Khosla from Khosla Ventures, Josh Kopelman from First Round Capital, Roger McNamee from Elevation Partners and Joe Schoendorf from Accel.

Software Review 48

Software Review Technical Review San Jose Venture Capital 48

VC Cafe

JUNE 24, 2011

Facebook will only allow Credits to be distributed through offers by approved providers once the July 1st deadline passes and all games to switch to Credits as their payment method. According to Israel Venture Capital (IVC), Ra’anana-based Advasense raised $31 million in 2005-07 from Giza Venture Capital , BlueRun Ventures.

United Kingdom 107

United Kingdom Venture Capital Taiwan 107