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How to Develop a Clearly Defined Cloud Strategy

ReadWriteStart

Cloud adoption is picking up steam and for a good reason. There are myriad advantages to running a business in the cloud and fewer risks than ever before. According to a LogicMonitor survey, 83% of enterprise workloads will be cloud-based by 2020. Hybrid clouds allow these two environments to meld seamlessly.

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How Pertino is reinventing the future of business networking

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Almost a year ago, my partner Barry Eggers and I met with Craig Elliott and Scott Hankins to talk about their vision for a new company, Pertino. Veterans of the networking industry, Craig formerly served as the CEO of Packeteer, a high-flying networking appliance vendor that he took public in 1999 with Scott as his director of engineering.

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How Netskope is changing the way enterprises adopt the cloud

Lightspeed Venture Partners

We have seen the rise of the cloud, the shift away from PCs to new mobile computing platforms, and the emergence of Big Data and Analytics as a core enabler of business agility. side effect of enterprise cloud and mobile adoption has been the creation of a new set of security challenges. One particularly interesting (to us!)

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Founder-Investor Fit

VC Cafe

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. Choose a partner, not just a fund. So choose your partner wisely.

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The most important 2021 Predictions in entertainment tech and gaming

VC Cafe

The move to remote work forced quick adoption of cloud technology and tools that were once having difficulties selling to large corporates, saw explosive growth – from Zoom to Hopin, new unicorns were born in record time. of US social network users) according to Falcon.io’s 2021 digital marketing trends. Immersive ar/vr/xr.

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9 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Business They are Starting Next Year

Hearpreneur

Using my own struggles in making connections here in a new city, I’m working on a new app idea based on my own experience being new in town here and trying to network/ meet/ date new people in an extremely unsocial time of purposefully distancing. Thanks to Linda Mueller, The Expat Partner Coach LLC ! #5- 4- Coaching.

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Why Has Seed Investing Declined? And What Does this Mean for the Future?

Both Sides of the Table

You might like to think that a bunch of savvy venture capitalists saw a market niche for raising smaller funds or perhaps there was a generational shift where disgruntled junior partners spun out of bigger firms to start their own gigs. Well, both of those things happened but they were lagging indicators.