VC Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2021

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. Disclaimer: we have three portfolio companies in the consumer mobile space, still in stealth). social media.

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Technical Review Audio Forecast Social Media 207

Agile VC

MAY 13, 2013

While our portfolio at NextView is roughly equally weighted to consumer facing and B2B companies, it seems that for consumer companies in particular being first mover confers little benefit and the drawbacks probably outweigh whatever weak advantage might exist. Dropbox (cloud storage). Netflix (video streaming).

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Cloud B2B Software Review Technical Review 205

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

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). Then take a year as a product manager in a startup in the firm’s portfolio. Then take a year and $250-500K to start and run a mobile/web/cloud company.

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Venture Capital Early Stage Technical Review Startup 332

Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2014

However, four critical advances over the past decade (cloud, accelerators, Lean, and Angels) not only changed the math for tech investing but made regional tech clusters possible. The cloud , open-source development tools and web 2.0 Few entrepreneurs find this scalable and repeatable business model because it’s not easy.

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Early Stage Silicon Valley Oregon Technical Review 286

Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Gox track down hundreds of thousands of Bitcoins to the Dutch police crediting the company with helping them find Hansa, one of the world’s biggest dark web drug marketplaces , to the company’s more recent Crypto Crime Series published earlier this year, much of the work that they do remains behind-the-scenes, but is no less critical.

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Web Silicon Valley Technical Review Artificial Inteligence 48

YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2013

In a move that surprised absolutely no one, multimedia and creativity software maker Adobe Systems announced earlier at its conference Adobe MAX that it will not be providing further updates on its legacy Creative Suite (CS) line of products and instead will be focusing its efforts entirely on Adobe Creative Cloud.

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Up and Running

MAY 10, 2021

We will see an increase in cloud platforms and a reduction in the cost of sensors. Today, everything is connected to the web that creates data to be utilized and exploited using IoT-powered mobile apps. Simply research the company with its portfolio. Trillion by 2025. In short, we are living in a digital age. Mobile wallets.

Artificial Inteligence 150

Artificial Inteligence Developer Development Team Review United Kingdom 150

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 11, 2016

But Gregg stayed and grew and took on more responsibilities and became a senior member of Salesforce’s Marketing Cloud team. The explosion of mobile phones has led to a boom in inbound click-to-call traffic that has proven to convert at a higher close rate and increase average-order-value over web-only sales & marketing.

Venture Capital 150

Venture Capital Fractional CTO Cofounder Early Stage 150

crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Confused by cloud computing price comparisons? Confused by cloud computing price comparisons? Web Design Trend Showcase: Splash Screen Revival – crowdspring.co/1pttgcA.

Social Media 97

Social Media Small Business Design Media 97

Feld Thoughts

JULY 25, 2013

Pantheon is one of the Silent Killers in our portfolio – and I’m immensely proud of the progress they are making and excited about their future. I spent a year on the Dean campaign Web Team during the presidential campaign of 2004. The Dean campaign Web Team proved a very simple but important idea to the world that year.

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Vermont Startup Campaign Virginia 165

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 20, 2020

For instance, I saw a local, Seattle startup with a high-value exact-match domain name that (if they launched in this segment) would have put them in direct competition with the likes of Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud. That was before we even discussed the required software development.

Sweat Equity 107

Sweat Equity Non-Compete Startup Azure 107

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

Agile VC

OCTOBER 27, 2011

One of the themes that we’ve been most interested in at NextView over the last 12+ months has been the impact of consumer web trends on business software. I’m not the first person to describe this trend, and my prior background has been primarily as a consumer web guy more than in B2B companies.

Software 100

Software B2B Silicon Valley Acquisition 100

Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

So without further delay: Large Tech Meetups: Web Innovators Group : Quarterly Demo-Style meetup in Cambridge draws over 1000 members of the startup community each time. Thoughtbot - Web application development and design. Terrible Labs – Ruby on Rails, Web and Mobile. Dan Rowinski – Boston based writer for Read Write Web.

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Boston Technical Review Community Cofounder 71

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Use cloud-based call center software for customer satisfaction. While cloud based call center software does offer the ability for a caller to be engaged with a customer service agent over voice channels, many call center software solutions offer other options for customer interactions with your business as well.

Technology 225

Technology Oregon SMS Cloud 225

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 20, 2020

For instance, I saw a local, Seattle startup with a high-value exact-match domain name that (if they launched in this segment) would have put them in direct competition with the likes of Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud. That was before we even discussed the required software development.

Sweat Equity 78

Sweat Equity Non-Compete Startup Azure 78

thebarefootvc

MAY 20, 2019

Amazon Web Services, used by many tech startups and larger companies for their cloud infrastructures, announced the expansion of its Blockchain as a Service offering. ” On the crypto side, Binance resumed trading services after its $40M hack.

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Architecture Software Engineering Security Portfolio 40

ithacaVC

OCTOBER 30, 2014

The underlying tech was developed at Cornell (like many of the companies in the CVF portfolio). By April 2014, supported by a small round of funding with farmers as the initial investors ,they took what the original Cornell team had created and rebuilt it into a cloud-based solution.

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Technical Review Technology Software Review IP 65

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2010

kaChing launched a virtual portfolio management game on Facebook in January 2008 and a similar version shortly thereafter on kaChing.com. Because kaChing prefers its portfolio managers to have a long track record, the marketplace launch (i.e., A portfolio manager’s entire track record & holdings had to be disclosed.

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San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment SEC 158

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

In a cloud world, software has a continuous cost of upkeep. Today, one of my portfolio companies, Editorially , announced that it was shutting down. Feel like it was the first tool that GOT web collaborative writing [link]. When the company dies, the software dies. That frustrates a lot of users. link] What a team.

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Cloud Cuba Product New York City 107

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 17, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Good long read on how Netflix leverages technology and the cloud | Businessweek – [link]. 15 Beautiful and Awesome Examples of Portfolio Designs | Silky Designs – [link].

Social Media 94

Social Media Small Business Design Technical Review 94

crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Why Crowdsourcing is the Next Cloud Computing | Wired - crowdspring.co/GZtngc. Design Tips for Building an Exquisite Portfolio - crowdspring.co/1gqnM0o. Quora - crowdspring.co/1hUngFS.

Social Media 92

Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

Up and Running

DECEMBER 17, 2014

To help you prep, I’ve collated a list of tools—for both web and mobile devices—that have helped me and others get things done, save time, and work more productively. At Palo Alto Software, we use it to manage our editorial calendar and the web development queue. ” Collect content from all over the web and organize it into lists.

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Entrepreneur Email SCRUM Stock 153

Seeing Both Sides

MARCH 30, 2014

Echoing these words, one of my CEOs declared to me the other day that last week''s activity in the cloud may have been one of the most important weeks in technology history, but we won''t realize it for many years to come. But Google finally appears to be catching up in the ever-important cloud services area.

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Dividend Cloud Lean Portfolio 51

Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 24, 2017

In addition, we were lucky enough to finally find reliable partners, thus adding a few more services to our portfolio – like Locksmith and Childcare. 12- Cloud Innovation Challenge Award. In 2017, our biggest accomplishment is absolutely the Amazon Web Services City on a Cloud Innovation Challenge win.

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Las Vegas Entrepreneur Software Review Community 88

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 22, 2014

Mom, will the people on clouds fall down on us one day? ?Mom, And no designer portfolio whatsoever. That’s how I’ve been preparing a web portfolio (for design) for years now and I still cannot make myself to start! Please tell us about yourself.?. When I think a bit, my name is mom. Moooom, why are turtles bold? ?Mom,

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Serbia Bosnia Romania Design 68

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. A funny video of Larry Ellison, the CEO of Oracle on Cloud Computing. But does Larry hate cloud computing that much or is he hiding a potential future acquisition of Salesforce.com? Cloud Computing. (1).

Software Review 48

Software Review Cloud Technical Review Venture Capital 48

Austin Startup

APRIL 17, 2017

Thrillbox Visual Semantics Visual Semantics builds cloud-based software to stream ‘predictive intelligence’ to AR/VR hardware and software applications primary for real time threat analysis. We interact daily with customers through chat, email, web, Facebook, and Twitter. To Apply: Please email Greg Farrenkopf at Greg.F@skimking.com

Semantic 48

Semantic Social Media Database Artificial Inteligence 48

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

We realized that there were certain open positions in our portfolio we wanted to call extra attention to. Because people live, shop, and buy in real time, Monetate products enable e-commerce web sites to market in real time. A week or so ago, we launched the Key Hire Wire at First Round.

Part-Time VPE 92

Part-Time VPE CTO Hire Engineer Sales 92

VC Cafe

JULY 27, 2021

The advancements in infrastructure, including the launch of 5G networks , new Nvidia chips with nearly 100% increase in GPU power, Lidar sensors embedded in consumer smartphones, to cloud gaming becoming widely available with offerings from Google, Amazon, Microsoft, etc. Alban Denoyel , Sketchfab’s co-founder and CEO.

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Cofounder Mobile Revenue Cloud 184

BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Cloud this, Cloud that – the word cloud is clearly an overhyped word and reminds me of the beginning of the hype around hosted models and ASPs (application service providers) in the late 90s and the term SAAS today.  Rightscale is an on-ramp to Amazon EC2 and other clouds and provides automate systems management. 

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Cloud EC2 Sales Cycle Cofounder 60

BeyondVC

JULY 31, 2008

We are continuing to move to a broadband connected world, where everything that we do on a device increasingly lives in the cloud. We will continue to see new cloud-based applications and services, and data-driven services will play a larger role in this new world.

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Jordan Exit Strategy IPO Semantic 60

K9 Ventures

APRIL 25, 2012

Over a decade ago, the big bottlenecks for web performance were server load and network bandwidth. Lots of companies sprung up in the Web 1.0 With the creation of CDNs and the use of edge caching, and today with the cloud and especially the ability to scale the number of servers on demand, we solved these two big issues.

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Web Caching HTML Bandwidth 70

K9 Ventures

APRIL 25, 2012

Over a decade ago, the big bottlenecks for web performance were server load and network bandwidth. Lots of companies sprung up in the Web 1.0 With the creation of CDNs and the use of edge caching, and today with the cloud and especially the ability to scale the number of servers on demand, we solved these two big issues.

Web 70

Web Caching HTML Bandwidth 70

Ben's Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2010

My friend Marc Andreessen invented the web browser and it is as though he invented it exclusively for his own personal use. With Proferi, the solution resides in the cloud, but this is only the beginning. Tags: Companies People Portfolio Companies Proferi.

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Cloud Romania Stealth United States 78

David Teten

APRIL 22, 2013

I couldn’t be more excited to share that one of our portfolio companies, Ionic Security (formerly Social Fortress), has raised $9.4 ff also provides a suite of financial and accounting services to them, as we do for over a dozen portfolio companies.

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Venture Capital Security Operations Atlanta 114