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 119

The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Enabled by affordable advanced technologies, such as cloud computing, global access to digital solutions has never been higher, and we are only just realizing the power of connectivity to navigate change. The evolution of cloud computing has enabled public and private enterprises to track, analyze and adjust processes faster than ever before.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Global Technology 167

Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

The European and Israeli cloud ecosystem is accelerating as never before. Back in 2016, Europe and Israel had only four public companies worth less than $9B combined and local cloud companies had raised just $900M throughout 2015. of market capitalization. 60% of the cloud IPOs had a market cap of $5B+ vs. only 28% this year.

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Global Europe Software Review 62

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.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

It goes beyond the change of name, to reflect the company’s intention to become fully metaverse focused within 5 years – Facebook is investing billions and hiring 1,000 people in EMEA to build their vision for our future online social interactions. No company has more riding on the Metaverse than Meta.

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IP Cofounder Valuation Acquisition 206

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

A week or so ago, we launched the Key Hire Wire at First Round. You will hire (over time) and manage a field and inside team of Sales Directors and Market Developers, including for each direct report creating and managing goals directly tied to Company goals. I tried to make it a little more entertaining than your average job RSS feed.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

how on Earth could the venture capital market stand still? One of the most common questions I’m asked by people intrigued by but also scared by venture capital and technology markets is some variant of, “Aren’t technology markets way overvalued? What Does this Mean for a Venture Capital Firm?

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Pre-Money Valuation Valuation Venture Capital Early Stage 471

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Your highest priority right now is hiring the 1 or 2 people that are going to join your company and make a difference. When you think about the success that is Silicon Valley, the unfair advantage is not just the huge amounts of available venture capital. Venture Capital. I’m sure there’s much more.

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Seattle Silicon Valley Technical Review Los Angeles 317

Up and Running

JUNE 19, 2015

Cloud-based Subscription Services (with Levi King) – (21:30). Almost a year in to it and you have great venture capital investment and you guys are growing, do you look back at that conversation in any different way? (with Levi King, Founder and CEO of Creditera) – (12:56). Peter: Why not? It’s going good.

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Cloud Small Business Silicon Valley Media 60

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?

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Lean Venture Capital Conversion IPO 108

Steve Blank

APRIL 1, 2020

B2B – cloud services, online meetings, virtual workforce management, collaboration tools. Or if you have sufficient cash, now is the time to hire great people who were never available. When hiring began again, everyone was relieved: “The worst is over. Are there parts of your supply chain that can be repurposed?

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South Korea Salary Business Model China 334

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. 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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Stealth Advisory Board Cloud Virginia 79

thebarefootvc

AUGUST 13, 2013

Client-server has moved to the cloud (dramatically decreasing the cost of software development and deployment), and mobile apps are everywhere. Hire forward-thinking people who have worked with some of the larger companies you’ve identified as competitors and/or partners. Fast forward to 2013. – PEOPLE.

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Advisory Board Cloud Venture Capital Vertical 70

Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

With new technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, blockchain, cloud computing, and robotics, entrepreneurs will have more opportunities to create innovative solutions that could revolutionize industries. Thanks to Sharon Tahar, Papaya Global ! #12- The most significant shift coming.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Entrepreneur Global 109

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Storm Clouds - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , November 12, 2010 We have enjoyed an amazing run in the web startup and investing space over the past five or six years. Competing To Win Deals - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , November 7, 2010 The venture capital business is highly competitive.

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Technical Review Technology Product CTO Hire 175

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

2010 was the year of the “super angel&# and 2011 has to date been the year of unbelievably highly priced B,C & D rounds of venture capital. We have the inability to hire engineering in Silicon Valley or brand sales people in NYC but the country still has very high structural long-term unemployment. We did not.

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Stock Technical Review Marketing Greece 305

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. In order to grow we hired successful and expensive sales people who in turn were able to (and incentivized to) sell projects at higher margins and close big deals. Walmart in the cloud. This was a mistake.

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Non-Compete Startup Internet Cost 386

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Don’t take my word for it – in the roundup of venture capital predictions for 2017 , I found it to be the top recurring theme. Venture Capital investments in AI, Europe 2016 (Source: Dealroom ). Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning will be eating the world. Some examples: AI will be the new mobile.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Startup 122

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.

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Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Your results, thanks to our high performance compute cloud should be available within an hour. DNAnexus ( www.dnanexus.com ) is pioneering the combination of cloud computing and whole-genome DNA sequence analysis. Our team dabbles in everything from S3 and EC2 cloud services to SIMD and assembly code.

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San Francisco CTO Hire Developer EC2 92

VC Cafe

MAY 5, 2020

Services to the home Cloud kitchens Remote work Grocery/ pharmacy deliveries Online exercise equipment Video streaming services Telemedicine Edtech Security. all conduct their business over the internet). ” Michael Moritz, FT. Sequoia’s Black Swan. A matrix to think about a future that none of us can predict (Source: Sequoia ).

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Forecast Venture Capital Cloud Demand 145

The Startup Magazine

MAY 26, 2020

We interviewed Bill Walsh, CEO/Founder of Business Coaching / Venture Capital firm Powerteam International. Other free resources that I can recommend are: RingCentral , a provider of cloud-based communications and collaboration solutions for business, is free for 90 days during COVID-19. Hire new creatives.

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Small Business Founder Miami Florida 158

Cracking the Code

MAY 25, 2010

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. 10 Things Every CEO Needs to Know About Product Design" unveiled at the Bessemer Annual Cloud CEO Conference. I would like to see more info on the Annual CEO Cloud event. Cloud Computing. (1).

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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. But we strive and aspire to build a firm that will excel and be around for awhile.

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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…. I tried, and I self-funded for probably longer than reasonable.

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Chicago Venture Capital Miami Employee 78

ConversionXL

JANUARY 16, 2019

Also in June, Zuora launched a new product, Z-Commerce for the Cloud , at the GigaOM’s Structure event. By that point, the company had already raised tens of millions of dollars in venture capital, and the product and company were a platform to raise awareness about the term. in favor of. a person whose true north is growth.

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Naming Conversion Flash Cofounder 119

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.

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Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics 110

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Common areas to address are decisions around capitalization, executive hiring and firing, share issuance (dilution), and acquisitions. The issue can be clouded sometimes when one of the founders is investing significant cash into the enterprise. Raise venture capital funding? You can set up a board.

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Cofounder Founder Equity Dilution 128

Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

One of my key learnings is to think further ahead than you originally believe – especially when hiring. When you’re hiring leaders, you need people who’ll stretch to the full scope of responsibilities you’ll give them. You should only do this with internal hires who you feel can take the role on. Many things!

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Community Cofounder Security Open Source 62

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. of companies should never raise venture capital. Venture capital, it’s a very particular industry. Mark: Oh come on, that’s way off base.

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Silicon Valley Software Review Internet Technical Review 204

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.

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Software Review Software Delaware Forecast 74

Hunter Walker

JUNE 26, 2023

Chris Neumann (of Canada’s Panache Ventures ) checks these boxes so I asked him to come on my blog (currently less consistent, hopefully still the other two) for Five Questions. Hunter Walk: So why venture capital, why early stage, and why Canada? CN: Thanks so much – that means a lot coming from you.

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Silicon Valley Canada Founder Early Stage 114

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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Intellectual Property Technical Review Software Review IP 149

Austin Startup

AUGUST 13, 2018

Learn how acquisitions can usher in new eras of growth and hiring, how to nurture existing cultures, how to merge different ways of thinking when the acquiring company doesn’t have tech roots, and how to deploy strategies for future success. Find out how their approach can help your scrappy startup put together a team you can be proud of.

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Austin Technical Review Cofounder Texas 48

VC Cafe

APRIL 7, 2011

Provigent, which was founded in 2000, raised $55 million from international and Israeli venture capital firms. Barclays Capital is opening a financial technology research and development center in Israel and plans to hire up to 200 people. Dell’s Israeli R&D center is the first of its kind in Israel.

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Java Database Argentina 79

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

Despite advances in cloud infrastructure, many businesses still have fleshy parts—soft underbellies where a human hand is required to keep quality control, stuff something into a box, order inventory, hire enough engineers to keep the site going or manage cash. Scale brings complexity.

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Dilution Equity Hiring Partner 104

www.kernelmag.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Well, a few months ago, I migrated the hosting for my Selective Tweets app to Amazon’s AWS cloud hosting platform. This should be a great example for anyone struggling to understand the concept of cloud computing. Derek Sivers: How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen. Nic Brisbourne on venture capital.

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