SiliconHills

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

Hyve Managed Hosting announced it has opened its North American hub in Austin. Hyve, based in Brighton, UK, provides infrastructure and management services, including private clouds, dedicated servers, colocation, and security services. based customers such as Orders in Seconds Inc., Virium Technology, […]

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

From data integrity software to healthcare management services, Hauser Private Equity has seen the value in businesses that exist in the in-between of raw materials and consumer goods, and how such companies have the ability to bring about realized gains for investors. Healthcare. Organic and Inorganic Growth.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 25, 2023

8- Property management Photo Credit: Jaden Oh Property management is a good way to make money, especially if you already know how to run a business or are good at making software for property management. It's just that many homeowners in this city don't have the time to manage multiple properties.

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Software Review Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Entrepreneur 112

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 29, 2020

Here are some of the key features and benefits of deploying PDFelement as part of your software portfolio. Share documents directly with other collaborators using cloud integration. Make team collaboration a breeze with annotations and direct integration with popular cloud storage services like Dropbox and Google Drive.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 4, 2019

One or two of the best companies may continue to appreciate, but most of a VC’s portfolio has probably been realized, written off, or has maxed out its value. The longer the portfolio maintains the same value without distributing back cash, the worse the fund’s ultimate IRR. Most LPs are trying to manage some targeted asset allocation.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 11, 2022

A couple of weeks ago I was did a fireside chat with Alon Grinshpoon, founder and CEO of Echo3D , a CDN and CMS for 3D content in the cloud and a Remagine Ventures portfolio company, as part of an entrepreneurial finance MBA class in Tel Aviv University. And Founder-investor fit can be a huge asset if you manage to find it.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2018

Sales teams have been using their CRMs for basic, day-to-day-functions — such as managing customer information and tracking purchase history — for decades. In that time, CRMs have faithfully served as a place to store data, log notes, and manage contacts. Xavier was previously Director of Act!

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deal architect

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

This time, it is Barbry McGann, SVP and Managing Director of Workday Ventures. As we have moved to virtual briefings, I have increasingly been excerpting short video segments (with permission ), as part of my Analyst Cam series.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 18, 2019

Technical support specialists is another name for help desk technicians, operations analysts, or problem managers. Technical support technicians manage hardware and software issues at the basic user level. . Some computer programmers apply their skills to database management systems or operating systems. .

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 24, 2020

This is one of the hottest cloud platforms for web and audio conferencing, chats, and webinars. . Even free accounts have the advantage of storing meetings on the cloud, so that they get accessed by absent students later. . Designs and portfolios undergo constructive criticism, and users freely share advice. . Google Classroom.

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 18, 2014

And similar to before, they join our portfolio that is dominated by SaaS (i.e. Our other portfolio companies have also done well growing their businesses, enabling 11 of them to raise new rounds. News AI Bitcoin blockchain healthcare machine learning marketplaces mobile enterprise platforms portfolio saas VR' Figure 1 ).

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Portfolio Seattle 159

BeyondVC

JANUARY 6, 2018

6 portfolio companies raised Series A financings including Manifold , Hypr , and 4 unannounced, 1 raised a Series B (unannounced), and Security Scorecard raised a $28mm Series C. Expect this trend to continue and what this means is that CIOs will take a portfolio approach, make some bets, and double down on their winners.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

This year was a banner year as boldstart portfolio cos raised over $150mm of follow on capital from some of the top Series A and B investors (highlights below). will be a great fit with the Salesforce marketing cloud. Natalie Diggins (Neustar, ex-VP Cloud Platform/DevOps), Francesca Krihely (MongoDB, Dir.

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Stealth Advisory Board Cloud Virginia 79

YoungUpstarts

JULY 25, 2019

by Rick Mac Gillis , founder and CEO of Dragon Cloud , author of “ The New Frontier In Web Api Programming “ Startups, more than any other type of business, are sensitive to change. The work history, clients, portfolio and reviews are gone, just like that? Because startups are fragile and fledgling. Too big to fail.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 2, 2013

After being involved in hundreds of technology companies, we know that young and fast growing technology companies have little time to devote to the details of managing their server infrastructure. Think of JumpCloud as taking over server maintenance, management, monitoring, and security once the provisioning tools have done their thing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The new paradigm, driven by disruptive technologies, cloud-served supercomputing, and the new generation of young adults with global empathy, is partnering and giving something now for a competitive advantage in the future. Business partnerships have traditionally been agreements to drive more transactions than either company could do alone.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Today, you can start a web/mobile/cloud startup for $500,000 and have money left over. Rolodex/deal flow (deal sourcing/ability to make connections for the portfolio). We want to find someone who has a lot of consumer internet product experience as either product manager, founder, VP Product, etc. Here’s why. ——-.

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Version One Ventures

MAY 29, 2014

Women are underrepresented as engineers, management, investors, and founders. Business Insider recently crunched the numbers behind 26 of the top venture capital funds in Silicon Valley and learned that the percentage of female-founded startups in their portfolios ranged from a high of 19% to a low of just 4%.

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Silicon Valley Founder Venture Capital Technical Review 167

VC Cafe

MARCH 6, 2024

Some of our investments to date include: We invest in Artificial Intelligence: Hour One – AI content workflows for enterprise video creation Munch – content repurposing, creating vertical short form clips with AI Playo – generative AI for game mechanics Syte – visual search and commerce personalisation Vault AI – predictive (..)

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Artificial Inteligence Generative AI Startup Vertical 141

Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Patch , an API platform for negative emissions, raised a $20M Series A led by Coatue Management with participation from existing investors ( Andreessen Horowitz, Pale Blue Dot and us!). Coatue Management led the round with participation from existing investors (Andreessen Horowitz, GV and us!)

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 20, 2020

Most Startups Are Poorly Managed. It’s not just a lack of direct formal education, many of the startups I have seen—especially those in the bottom quartile—are run by very inexperienced managers who think that all businesses is run on a shoestring or by trying to bleed a stone. Without demand, startups falter and ultimately fail.

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Sweat Equity Non-Compete Startup Azure 107

Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Unveilling of the Bessemers 10 laws of Cloud Computing and SaaS - Winter 2010 Release. The Cloud computing stack is currently defined by three levels: SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS. Tuesday, November 10, 2009. Mind the GAAP!

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

Of course it’s much harder to identify “emerging managers” who it turns out have been some of the best performers over the past 5-7 years such as Union Square Ventures, Spark Capital, First Round Capital, True Ventures, Greycroft, Foundry Group, Thrive and Upfront Ventures. and the bigger funds can’t get in directly.

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Technical Review Venture Capital Valuation Pre-Money Valuation 398

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

The new paradigm, driven by disruptive technologies, cloud-served supercomputing, and the new generation of young adults with global empathy, is partnering and giving something now for a competitive advantage in the future. Business partnerships have traditionally been agreements to drive more transactions than either company could do alone.

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Partner Intellectual Property Silicon Valley Startup 310

Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Outreach made the 2023 Cloud 100 list , honoring the top 100 biggest private cloud companies in the world. Gencove announced Explorer analysis cloud, a transformative approach to genomic data analytics and management. The company raised a $7.5m seed round. You can read more about it here.

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Portfolio Technical Review San Francisco Seattle 82

David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

A friend of mine interviewed for a job with massively successful hedge fund manager Steven A. – Thoughtful fund management. When I talk with non-founding insiders at many alternative investment firms, I regularly hear complaints about the quality of firm management. The result is a poorly managed organization.

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Venture Capital Private Equity Silicon Valley Differentiation 60

David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

A friend of mine interviewed for a job with massively successful hedge fund manager Steven A. – Thoughtful fund management. When I talk with non-founding insiders at many alternative investment firms, I regularly hear complaints about the quality of firm management. The result is a poorly managed organization.

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Venture Capital Private Equity Silicon Valley Differentiation 60

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 11, 2016

We might help a management team deal with a vexing strategic question or a thorny negotiation but these are mostly tactical. But Gregg stayed and grew and took on more responsibilities and became a senior member of Salesforce’s Marketing Cloud team. That’s why I often say The role of VC is “chief psychologist.”

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

This could include tools such as automated customer relationship management systems (CRM), artificial intelligence (AI) for predictive analytics and market insights, or cloud-based solutions for data security and scalability. Be sure to conduct extensive research before committing to any financial product.

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Artificial Inteligence Guerilla Technical Review Stock Options 52

Feld Thoughts

MARCH 17, 2010

When Alan started writing his column for Network World he asked me for introductions to a bunch of our portfolio companies that were using open source. Earlier today, Alan wrote an article on Standing Cloud titled Seeding the Cloud with Open Source, Standing Cloud Makes It Easy. The Re-Rise of Open Source.

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Open Source Cloud Portfolio Technical Review 94

Hunter Walker

JUNE 7, 2014

And my sense is the trend carries outside of our portfolio these days. You Don’t Need to Show Off for the Fortune 500 CTO: Funding announcements used to be the credibility you’d need to get a meeting with the CTO or other management with purchasing power and a RFP. The individuals and team managers have more sway.

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Technical Review CTO Hire Finance Stealth 117

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 20, 2020

Most Startups Are Poorly Managed The reality is, most 20-somethings that start businesses lack the operational, managerial, sales and financial expertise to scale anything. Addressing some of the reasons for startup failure should be pre-eminent, including: Establishing a winning, experienced management team.

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Sweat Equity Non-Compete Startup Azure 78

YoungUpstarts

MAY 22, 2013

It’s no wonder that consumer-level cloud file storage and sharing solutions – such as Dropbox , Box or even YouSendIt – have been widely employed in the office by the more tech-savvy professionals, whether it’s with or without their IT departments’ knowledge.

Cloud 140

Cloud Intellectual Property Metadata Architecture 140

BeyondVC

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

Google – has Gsuite for Google Cloud – do they add a collaboration layer or do they just buy someone else? Box/Dropbox – coming at it from a technically commodity base layer of file sharing and storage, trying to add stickiness on top with Paper by Dropbox and Notes from Box.

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Technical Review New York City Software Review New York 84

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

We’ve seen some modest progress in people upgrading from Excel to Google Sheets; use of some CRM; and a cloud-based storage service. A major angel group used Influitive , an advocate management tool, to track, activate and motivate their members. 4) Manage deal flow. But beyond that, not much. 9% (1 / 12). 1) Market fund.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

Austin Startup

MAY 2, 2017

I take great pride when my portfolio companies break technology barriers and launch products and/or partnerships that truly move the needle for customers. I met the founders, Subbu Rama , Mazhar Memon , and Maciej Bajkowski in the spring of 2015 during the Techstars Cloud program. In the end, IMPACT is what matters.

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Artificial Inteligence Cloud Angel Investor Architecture 48

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2010

To shed some light, I talked with kaChing , a destination that enables individual investors to find outstanding money managers to manage their money. kaChing launched a virtual portfolio management game on Facebook in January 2008 and a similar version shortly thereafter on kaChing.com. The result?

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