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Announcing our investment in Dataloop

The Equity Kicker

At that time he was talking about infrastructure monitoring, doing customer development work but had yet to start the company. They were coming out of Alfresco where they’d built a custom solution to monitor their infrastructure as they’d moved from an on premise software company to a cloud play.

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

Customers will get to consume the content they want, and support the producers of that content directly, rather than having to rely exclusively on intermediaries. Now, helping potential customers discover new things they might like is the job of the discipline of marketing. There are just too many of them out there. But guess what?