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boldstart 2018 recap and what’s hot in enterprise 2019

BeyondVC

First check leads in 5 founding teams, all in stealth. congrats to Fortress IQ on its $12mm Series A led by Lightspeed and a stealth co on their $13.5mm Series A led by Bessemer Venture Partners. Smallstep , Clay , Dark , and Windmill emerged out of stealth. will be a great fit with the Salesforce marketing cloud.

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boldstart in 2017, enterprise tech in 2018

BeyondVC

We were first check leads in 8 founding teams including Wallaroo Labs , MState (fka hyperfab ), blockdaemon , and 5 in stealth. This speed of adoption of new tech will accelerate at the largest enterprises, and they will be reliant on early stage startups to do so. 2 exits including yhat (sold to Alteryx?

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The Next Bubble – Don’t Get Fooled Again

Steve Blank

Today, the signs of the new bubble are the Linked-In initial public offering (IPO), Facebook’s stratospheric valuation and the rapid rise of early-stage startup valuation. I contend that we are approaching the early part of the mania phase.

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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

Both Sides of the Table

Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. What are “Reg D” filings with the SEC and why does this make it harder to stay in stealth mode? and who had biz reasons for wanting to remain stealth.”. - We spoke briefly about why.

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Which language should my startup use?

www.reincubate.com

Java is a great language for enterprises and is commonly used by many big dotcoms, banks and airlines, but its relatively slow development pace and higher barrier to entry make it inappropriate for most early-stage businesses. PHP is a widely-used Open Source web scripting language.

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The Future of Startups 2013-2017

Scalable Startup

Security, Cloud, NoSQL databases, etc. In the last five years, there’s been this sort of acknowledgment of the consumerization of the enterprise, which is consumer product development, design methods applied to business software, of which SaaS and cloud and all these things are examples. Nothing is going to stop cloud.

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New Year, New Fund

Seeing Both Sides

When we started Flybridge over thirteen years ago, we developed a firm mission statement that we would treat early stage founders as our valued customers and have lived by this mission throughout our history. That’s a funny line for many because, historically, VCs are viewed (and at times reviled) as judges or overlords.