Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

Investor profiles on the platform are created by the investors themselves, and tell you exactly who the group’s leaders are, and what they are looking for. Gust takes advantage of the cloud, and you should, too.

Angel Groups 159

Angel Groups Elevator Pitch Software Review Deal Flow 159

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2015

If you want to understand the software trend that drove the creation of the seed-stage VC phenomenon I wrote about it that linked blog post but in short: cloud computing drove down the cost to create startups enabling a new category of investor. But not many others.

Seed Stage 150

Seed Stage Silicon Valley Syndicate Syndication 150

Austin Startup

DECEMBER 6, 2010

the cloud infrastructure software company, today announced it has secured $3.5 million in Series A funding to develop management solutions that help secure open source software such as Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl (LAMP), and accelerate enterprise adoption of public, private and hybrid cloud environments. Gazzang, Inc.,

SQL 59

SQL PHP Database Open Source 59

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

I met Adam and Social Fortress at the first Flashpoint Demo Day in New York earlier this year; ff became the only institutional investor and I joined the Board in May. (I Leaving the user experience completely intact, Social Fortress does its magic as your data is on its way to and from the cloud.

Institutional Investors 60

Institutional Investors New York Security Portfolio 60

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

VCs tout themselves as frontier technology investors, but most are using the same infrastructure tools they have used for the past 20+ years: Excel and recent college grads searching Google. We’ve seen some modest progress in people upgrading from Excel to Google Sheets; use of some CRM; and a cloud-based storage service.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Most IPOs are managed by a handful of investment banks who run a roadshow to sell stock to risk-averse institutional investors. The reason I think SPACs are hot right now is the lack of innovation in the IPO process.

Venture Capital 28

Venture Capital IPO Cofounder Institutional Investors 28

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%. IPO markets had burned an entire cycle of retail stock investors and many institutional investors to boot. The number of startups being created has increased by an order of magnitude.

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 3, 2018

If what made you successful isn’t working anymore, don’t wait for an activist investor to force the shift to a new way of competing. ADP’s newer, cloud-based competitors are able to be located anywhere, regardless of where their clients are. Lesson 2: Make bureaucracy your enemy.

Agile 113

Agile Malaysia Private Equity Non-Compete 113

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. Venture capitalists are raising money from other investors, institutional investors who expect certain returns from us. Mark: Oh come on, that’s way off base.

Silicon Valley 204

Silicon Valley Software Review Internet Technical Review 204

VC Cafe

JUNE 19, 2020

There’s an increasing interest from institutional investors in particular, but also high-net-worth individuals, private banks and a variety of other players who are thinking to make more impact investments than we’ve seen in the past couple of years.”. Tech best sub sectors include cloud computing, machine learning/A.I.

Venture Capital 174

Venture Capital Global South Africa 174