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Amsterdam-based Rockstart Accelerator’s first graduates head to Silicon Valley

The Next Web

The accelerator, which counts Amazon CTO Werner Vogels among its startup mentors , will be showcasing its first batch of startups (see list below) in Silicon Valley on the 20th of September, followed by a panel discussion about “The Future of the European Startup Community” Sounds riveting!

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The New Order of Silicon Valley: Forget the Silicon Part

Diego Basch

Here are the trends I see in Silicon Valley today: The “Silicon” part of the name no longer applies. The role of most developers at these companies is to glue cloud services together. Why be in Silicon Valley at all? The number one advantage of Silicon Valley is access to money.

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International Student Success in Tech – A CTO’s Journey

The Startup Magazine

In 2010, Kranthi was hired as a full-time software engineer by International Technological University (ITU), the Silicon Valley industry-oriented school where he had earned his second MS degree. Looking to Solve Problems. The Solution Uncovered. Any brick and mortar school can use EMS to offer online courses.

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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. And in 2013, Version One got its first analyst, with the hiring of Angela Tran Kingyens. We now have Boris in Vancouver and Angela in Palo Alto.

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boldstart 2018 recap and what’s hot in enterprise 2019

BeyondVC

will be a great fit with the Salesforce marketing cloud. Natalie Diggins (Neustar, ex-VP Cloud Platform/DevOps), Francesca Krihely (MongoDB, Dir. In 2019, we’ll be doubling down on this effort as we are hiring a GM for our CXO Advisory Board & Network ( job description here ). New CXO advisors join?—?

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Growth strategies for marketplaces: key takeaways from a fireside chat on growth

Version One Ventures

Growth hacking and growth teams are so commonplace today, at least inside Silicon Valley, that it’s easy to forget that “growth” (as we know it now) is a relatively new phenomenon. When is the right time to hire a growth person? And usually by Series B, startups start hiring a growth team.

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Not Coming To The Rescue Of Victory

ReadWriteStart

We're trying to bring the lessons we have learned in Silicon Valley to a million entrepreneurs. Also, it is too soon to raise money, so Yogesh should continue to finance the business through consulting and executing on various customer hiring projects. However, 1M/1M is a development economics project.