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. I also believe that there was a fundamental change in consumer behaviour. Fortnite alone made $1.8

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Both Sides of the Table

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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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 27, 2015

The traditional venture capital model calls for a degree of faith in the teams you choose to invest in. This is just one example of many as to how collaboration benefits all the teams at Momentum Ventures. There are many reasons why the traditional venture capital model is flawed.

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BeyondVC

APRIL 4, 2018

We are at the beginning stages of one of the biggest IT shifts in history as legacy workloads in the enterprise continue to move to a cloud-native architecture. Rise of multi-cloud. Most legacy workloads are still locked on-prem and not moved to any cloud infrastructure. SaaS to Infrastructure, Salesforce and Mulesoft.

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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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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 5, 2012

DiningCircle.com is aimed at handling real-time Web-enabled restaurant reservations. To be successful, a venture needs this laser focus. It is all about the Web. Most of the firms had some critical component that had something to do with using Web protocols or the cloud. I have a platform to sell you.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 20, 2020

All while the majority of the economy is driven greatly by boring industries often owned by private equity, not venture capital. It’s one of the reasons sites like Fortune, Entrepreneur, Inc and Forbes spend a large majority of their content creation time filled with stories of startups, new companies and “the next big thing.”

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David Teten

APRIL 22, 2013

In the past, users had two solutions: don’t use web-based services at all, or hide behind walls. Since the upside of web-based tools like Salesforce, Box, and Dropbox is so significant, neither of those options is very attractive anymore. This also means your cloud app and internet service provider cannot see your data either.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

will be a great fit with the Salesforce marketing cloud. Natalie Diggins (Neustar, ex-VP Cloud Platform/DevOps), Francesca Krihely (MongoDB, Dir. While the cloud wars, AI, automation, and digital transformation dominated the enterprise headlines in 2018, we have to remember that we are still early in the cycle.

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David Teten

AUGUST 15, 2013

1) Corporate Venture Capital. Most VCs (including ff Venture Capital ) collect money from independent limited partners in order to form their fund. Amazon hosts an annual startup challenge for companies using Amazon Web Services (AWS). 3) Freebies. 4) Accelerators.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 20, 2020

All while the majority of the economy is driven greatly by boring industries often owned by private equity, not venture capital. It’s one of the reasons sites like Fortune, Entrepreneur, Inc and Forbes spend a large majority of their content creation time filled with stories of startups, new companies and “the next big thing.”

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VC Cafe

MAY 23, 2023

As I mentioned in my post on the LLM Benchmarking , venture capital investment in AI startups was down 43% in Q1 2023. If Generative AI is truly a platform shift like the early days of mobile and cloud, think about the first generation of apps or cloud services. What else do we know?

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thebarefootvc

AUGUST 13, 2013

Larger companies such as IBM and SAP that had enterprise-wide deployments would offer some solutions around these pain points, but entrepreneurs claimed that these were not sufficient, and that the emergence of the Web and server technology made some of the legacy software inefficient, inadequate and obsolete. Fast forward to 2013.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

The book has been shepherded and edited by a great Japanese VC at Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Venture Capital, Takashi Tsutsumi, with help from Masato Iino. The result: great success of my third startup, a load balancing technology for web servers back in the late 1990’s. ————-.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! How to outsource everything to the cloud (except yourself) – [link]. How to outsource everything to the cloud (except yourself) – [link]. – [link].

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

In a cloud world, software has a continuous cost of upkeep. Feel like it was the first tool that GOT web collaborative writing [link]. Seed investing is a risk, and while things are playing out really well at Brooklyn Bridge Ventures , the portfolio is simply not going to have 100% success rate. Venture Capital & Technology'

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Why We’re Pivoting from Mobile-first to Web-first – [link]. Want Venture Capital Funding? 20 Creative Business Card Designs | Pixel Clouds – [link].

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Because people live, shop, and buy in real time, Monetate products enable e-commerce web sites to market in real time. VP of Engineering, AppNexus - New York, NY "It's over a billion ad impressions a day, we got a full tank of venture capital, half a pack of cigarettes, the future of ad networks is dark, and we're wearing sunglasses."

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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).

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Up and Running

MARCH 18, 2010

Without going into detail here, our deal terms lean towards companies that will be getting a larger investment from professional venture capital within a year or so. Normally that means product or productized service (like a web app) that can scale. Likelihood of exit. This is all about a business that can grow fast.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Your results, thanks to our high performance compute cloud should be available within an hour. DNAnexus ( www.dnanexus.com ) is pioneering the combination of cloud computing and whole-genome DNA sequence analysis. Our team dabbles in everything from S3 and EC2 cloud services to SIMD and assembly code.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 19, 2017

Access to capital —  Austin has almost a dozen venture capital firms and a dozen more in the fundraising stages. Here is a partial list of the Capital Factory Partners who are backing this investment. CNBC said Austin is the best city in the U.S. to start a new business. to live in.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 14, 2013

“The results of programs like 500 Startups, Techstars, and Y-Combinator are well known, but due to the culture here in Europe there’s still a lot of unknowns in terms of the track record for follow on funding and results of accelerator programs based in Europe,” says Don Ritzen, co-founder and CEO of Rockstart Accelerator.

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Scalable Startup

JULY 20, 2013

These are now done either transparently in the background, in the cloud, or done using minimally invasive mobile apps. The software just doesn’t leave it’s cloud hosts anymore. SaaS is the culmination of over 20 years of changes from ASPs, client-server, the web, higher speeds, always on, mobile 2.0,

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 24, 2012

In addition, the availability of cloud and open source technologies has further reduced the cost to get a technology business started as now anyone can get computing and storage capacity in the cloud or build a LAMP stack for a few hundred dollars. This low entry barrier should accelerate the pace of innovation.

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Both Sides of the Table

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). Current round: $5.0mm in Series A by NEA and Anthem Venture Partners.

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BeyondVC

JULY 31, 2008

Venture Capital firms continue to invest in companies that are providing answers to key disruptive market forces and are exiting those investments via M&A. We are continuing to move to a broadband connected world, where everything that we do on a device increasingly lives in the cloud. The Jordan, Edmiston Group, Inc.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 10, 2011

Congrats to my friends at Avalon Ventures on raising their new $200 million fund. I’ve been friends with and co-invested with Rich Levandov , one of Avalon’s partners, since the mid-1990′s, most recently in Standing Cloud , Zynga , and NewsGator.

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 23, 2008

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. In addition, Cardo got a lot of press for this initiative - so, overall great PR at minimal cost and this shows how web 2.0 Cloud Computing. (1). Venture Capital. (3). Explore Venture Capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

Palm (acquired by HP ) – In our interview we talked about how transformational mobile computing is and why it’s different than web computing (e.g. Investors: Google Ventures. Klout measures influence on topics across the social web to find the people the world listens to; assigns a Klout score to Twitter members.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 20, 2014

Canary is the world''s most easy to install home security device , connecting to its homeowners via the cloud. I''ve been getting effectively that same service because there''s a web connected device in every room, and I stream. That''s what the web is. Venture Capital & Technology' We don''t use the Yahoo!

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2011

In the stealth phase , prescient angel investors and Venture Capitalists (VCs) start investing in an industry or market segment that others have not yet found. In the case of this bubble, it was social networks, consumer and mobile applications, and the cloud. Filed under: Venture Capital.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 17, 2011

Smart Money are prescient angel investors and Venture Capitalists who started investing in social networks, consumer and mobile applications and the cloud 3, 4 or 5 years ago. Do the new wave of social/web/mobile/cloud companies going public have valuations which exceeds their fundamental value by a large margin?

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Gust

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Today, it can sign one deal with a cloud service provider such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) to replace all of the above. After eliminating all of these types of assets, what remains? Intellectual property.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

He serves on the advisory board of a number of technology startups, and has worked as a consultant to a number of startups, companies, and venture capital firms. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, November 25, 2009 9:54 AM Danny Wong said.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 2, 2015

Let’s dive right in and take a look at the latest #BreachDuJour victims: A CIA-backed technology company was the bearer of bad news after discovering that logins and passwords for 47 government agencies were strewn across the Web – a cyber hacker’s dream come true!

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 23, 2007

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Popular Media is a hosted, web-based technology platform that enables customers to quickly create, optimize, and scale viral marketing programs - and it seems to work pretty well. Cloud Computing. (1).

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