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Announcing our investment in Dataloop

The Equity Kicker

The underlying drivers are the continuing shift into the cloud, the growing complexity of online services, and the trend towards continuous deployment – all trends with legs. We were significantly aided in our understanding by the developers in our team who have been living some of the problems that Dataloop is solving.

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

Seed-stage investors are learning the metrics of traction, and are getting better at identifying those companies that are really achieving validated learning about customers. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. We faced this same problem in entrepreneurship and venture capital, but we are getting past it.