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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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JANUARY 6, 2014

When you first start your company and raise initial venture capital your board probably consists of 1-3 founders and 1-2 VCs. Brett was formerly SVP of the Marketing Cloud at Salesforce with an enormous organization of sales, marketing, implementation, sales engineers, etc. In the Early Days. We realized we needed help.

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JUNE 18, 2010

What a pleasure that I got to spend an hour talking with both Om Malik (whom I’ve always respected his views) and Paul Jozefak , a venture capital partner at Neuhaus Partners in Germany (and formerly the head of Europe for SAP Ventures). 406 Ventures. Offers cloud-based web analytics software provider.

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MAY 4, 2010

Provides application performance management (APM) software solution that helps web sites manage distributed applications in high-volume production environments; features include: application mapping, transaction flow monitoring, code-level diagnostics, and cloud orchestration. Tags: This Week in Venture Capital.

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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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MAY 5, 2011

When you think about the success that is Silicon Valley, the unfair advantage is not just the huge amounts of available venture capital. A key deal not only helps you raise venture capital but it can help attract employees, garner press attention, help with product focus & importantly drive customer adoption and/or revenue.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2012

He didn’t get too complicated on the differences of multi-tenant online databases or the power of remote logins when all your data is in the cloud. It was a journalist who covered Venture Capital. .” What about Marc Benioff of Salesforce.com? WTF does that even mean?

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OCTOBER 17, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series about Raising Venture Capital. With open source software (LAMP stack) and cloud computing infrastructure it just wasn’t that expensive to get your company going and founders just wanted to raise less money. Tags: Pitching VCs Raising Venture Capital Start-up Advice.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

There are real changes in the venture capital industry and it would have been fun to talk about them. You have an open source stack, cloud services for storage, processing & management and APIs for just about anything you want. Answer: Not much. And that was evident on today’s Angel vs. VC panel. It’s a shame.

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MAY 15, 2010

Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. 6mm in Series B; total raise of $10mm – Investor: Egan-Managed Capital, Sigma Partners – Read more: TechCrunch. Cloud-based systems is compatible with major existing systems.

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APRIL 12, 2018

The minute your company reaches its peak acceleration in terms of growth is when all of the sleeping giants wake up to compete with you and will spend massive amounts of money to keep you from capturing a growth market and other talented entrepreneurs will raise large amounts of venture capital as people start to see value in the market.

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MARCH 22, 2010

I became quite good friends with a journalist at the Financial Times and eventually helped her as she wrote a book on the venture capital industry. The closest relationships I ever built with journalists were at cocktail parties where we didn’t talk anything about my company. It started socially.

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MAY 17, 2017

with the cloud of a lawsuit hanging over you. I had the good fortune of sitting down privately with Sir Richard and listening to him talk about his venture capital activities and what interested him, but what got him most animated was when he spoke about Jamie and Ring. The first instinct is fear, then dread, then panic.

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MAY 22, 2010

This week I was preparing for my weekly This Week in Venture Capital web show and was researching some of the deals that were announced for the week. I first noticed it while filming an episode of This Week in Cloud Computing. You can create virtual instances of computers in the cloud. I’m spotting another trend.

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AUGUST 11, 2009

I run a monthly meeting called the VCA that represents the majority of Southern California venture capital firms. All have been fascinating. This month’s presentation was truly mind boggling so I wanted to be sure to share the entire presentation with all of you.

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DECEMBER 22, 2011

I have other areas of interest & competence such as cloud computing and document management given my background. Walmart in the cloud. The Cloud is the future at Amazon has an enormous lead. I try to invest in things that I know and that I believe I might have better knowledge and relationships than the masses of VCs.

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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. Businesses will continue to realize that the Internet is one big information utility and will continue to move operations to the cloud. I’m long the cloud. We did not.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Breakout companies become much harder and this isn’t likely to improve unless we give new companies the tools and capital they need to flourish. So however populist the idea of cutting out people from the process may be, I strongly doubt it will replace the role of the existing venture capital ecosystem.

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