Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. It may surprise you to learn that LA graduates more engineers than anywhere else in the country. ”).

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David Teten

JULY 25, 2017

O perations – We work closely with a pool of preferred service providers who address the operational challenges of early-stage companies: accounting, financial modeling, sales acceleration, legal and regulatory needs, insurance, real estate, engineering, and community building. with the announcement of a funding round, new senior hires, etc.

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David Teten

JANUARY 23, 2021

For ideas, see How Executives Can Work from Home with Private Equity and Venture Capital Funds. Set up the basic marketing toolkit: deck, website, accurate online databases, and social media accounts. . Julia Rhee , Advisor to Typhon Capital Management, observes, “You need to reverse-engineer institutions’ checkboxes.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

I started as a programmer, and then a database designer, and then a project manager, and I led conversion teams. They paid engineers $4,000 more entry-point. By the way, the salary, which was a good salary, was $27,000 entry salary, and engineers were paid $31,000 to $35,000. [00:10:30] Engineering vs. non-engineering. [00:10:32]

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gigaom.com

JUNE 18, 2012

Ex-Facebookers launch MemSQL to make your database fly. With Facebook engineers, it appears the high-performance database apple doesn’t far fall from the tree. All told, he claims MemSQL performs up to 30 times faster than disk-based databases. By Derrick Harris. 18, 2012, 4:30am PT. 4 Comments. Email address.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Our team includes 12 top-notch engineers from NVidia, Microsoft, Stanford, Berkeley and Cornell. On top of that throw in a bunch of web servers and SQL databases, cross-platform 3D graphics code and a highly scalable physics engine and you get the idea. Thousands of our users create interesting content every day.

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BeyondVC

MARCH 18, 2018

With over 120,000 developers using the platform, 100,000 projects protected, 350,000 downloads per month, and notable partnerships with Heroku, JFrog and Microsoft Sonar, Snyk has proven it can get developers to fully adopt a security solution, and the importance of having the strongest database of known vulnerabilities in open source.

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Open Source Security Cofounder Software Review 60

VC Cafe

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Affectiva ’s database of facial emotional responses is in this category, as are Pallas Ludens (end to end data annotation service), and opensensors.io (adding value to public sources of sensor data). Yossarian Lives is a search engine that can make lateral connections, like humans can, to aid creativity. Is anyone doing this?

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

Do you work as a civil engineer on water projects and have great access to wealthy project developers? All deals – especially (but not only) those that got venture funded. In LA we have www.socaltech.com but in every market there’s some sort of database. Lists are available everywhere. It creeps people out.

Silicon Valley 291

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Large volume of structured data can stored in relational databases and accessed quickly by queries. Big Data is not only about volume but also about the type of data. Big Data contains structured data but mostly unstructured data (which is the key driver of growth as shown in the graph above).

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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). Real-time search engine. Tags: This Week in Venture Capital.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

Hurricane Sandy has done some significant damage in NYC, and ff Venture Capital is looking for ways to help out. Engineering services: Getting a server back up and running. We currently have extra desks in our midtown office, and free wifi. If your company needs space to work during the next couple of days, we have spare desks.

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Altgate

OCTOBER 1, 2010

Our experience shows that meaningfully appropriate peer groups in the 10 to 30 range are possible for almost all of the tech and life science companies in our database. The trick in selecting the best peer cohort is to be specific on as many dimensions as possible, but not so specific that the peer group is too small. So, what do you think?

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Notion Labs (not to be confused with Notion the venture capital fund), is one of those products. A quick look at what’s available shows they are targeting enterprise users (design, product, sales, human resources, engineering…) but the Personal and Education template libraries are also fairly developed.

Wiki 68

Wiki San Francisco Post-Money Valuation Cloud 68

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . I use another live Google doc to maintain my database of companies I’m marketing to other VCs. Fund/SPV management services specifically are provided by Assure Services and Proteus Capital.

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Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

www.drowningamerican.com

JUNE 22, 2012

We have a myriad of connections to local Venture Capital firms, entrepreneurs, CEOs, and many other important individuals. Database Expertise: MSSQL/MySQL – Relational database design and programming, stored procedures, triggers, reporting, and administration. link] Fynn Glover. Thanks for sharing this. Pingback: Quora.

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Altgate

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← But What Does It Mean? This is the difference between engineers and scientists. Engineers like to shape what happens. Anyway, here’s my “engineer&# suggestion. Armageddon Averted?

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David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

In his white paper How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood , PEVCTECH.com founder David Teten explored how private equity and venture capital investors are trying to automate more of their job. Boldstart uses both Zapier and Catalytic for this purpose.

Early Stage 60

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 18, 2018

In many cases the implementation will involve database changes, scheduled tasks, and cumbersome logic to tie it all together. There are software applications, or workflow engines, that have been created to manage business processes. None of that counts for anything of course if the backend workflow engine isn't up to scratch.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I came across this blog post about getting a computer science degree as the best degree for getting into venture capital or working at a VC-backed start up. I listed on many databases – some MBA, some not. It pays for all of our great engineers. I had to laugh a bit reading it. It’s how we move products.

NPV 337

NPV Chicago Balance Sheet Database 337

David Teten

JULY 3, 2012

I finally did it: I’ve moved my contact database over to the web. I’ve been a loyal Act user for my personal CRM system since 1996, and have 13,000 contacts in my database. We needed to wait from Friday until Tuesday to get an engineer. Tech support could not solve the above issues.

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Database Web Email Cost 133

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

Funding is different – In Silicon Valley you have mega venture capital funds and many of them. You don’t have a pool of thousands of Google engineers to hire when they’re ready to leave the mother ship. But we have a great city for building technology companies. You can find very talented technology executives.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

SIGNIFICANCE PROMINENT. --> The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail. An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. The National Venture Capital Association estimates that 25% to 30% of venture-backed businesses fail. NAME David Cowan.

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David Teten

JULY 3, 2012

I finally did it: I’ve moved my contact database over to the web. I’ve been a loyal Act user for my personal CRM system since 1996, and have 13,000 contacts in my database. We needed to wait from Friday until Tuesday to get an engineer. Tech support could not solve the above issues.

Database 114

Database Web Email Cost 114

www.cscyphers.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Clearspring just did this; they held a Big Data meetup and were pretty open about trying to recruit engineers — which was a smart move in a target rich environment they created inside their own office. Database (7). Adventures In Venture Capitalism. That would get my attention, and the attention of others like me.

Cofounder 40

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. WordStream solutions both create, generate, manage and analyze the performance of large keyword databases. I first discovered it from Dharmesh Shah’s blog OnStartups.

Stealth 285

Stealth SEC Advertising Accredited Investor 285

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

To build applications we needed databases (Oracle), browsers (Netscape), servers (Sun Microsystems), storage (EMC), security (Semantic), application servers (Apache), caching software, load balancers, hosting facilities, programming languages and methods, CDNs, DSL equipment, Wifi routers and so forth. Venture Capital.

Silicon Valley 390

Silicon Valley Kansas City Startup Venture Capital 390

thebarefootvc

APRIL 28, 2010

When I first saw the company present at SXSW in March, it was clear that this company, a spinout from SRI International , was onto realizing the promise of personalized data that works FOR individuals, ie, all of us who are creating massive databases in the cloud with each click.

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Acquisition Database Mobile Search 45

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Don’t take my word for it – in the roundup of venture capital predictions for 2017 , I found it to be the top recurring theme. Venture Capital investments in AI, Europe 2016 (Source: Dealroom ). Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning will be eating the world. Some examples: AI will be the new mobile.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

I first met Steve when he was VP of Engineering at Centerline software, a software development tools startup, and I was a junior in college. In founding TripAdvisor, Kaufer wanted to take his hard core engineering skills and apply them to vertical search in travel. Big Data meets travel…in 2000.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Over the past two years, one of the most influential venture-capital firms has turned the usual rules of start-up investing on its head. In the early days of venture capital, when money was scarce, entrepreneurs often gave up control of their company in exchange for their first investment funds. LUBLIN And SPENCER E.

Silicon Valley 42

Silicon Valley Founder Software Review Technical Review 42

VC Cafe

JULY 7, 2023

To put things in context, global venture funding in Q2 2023 reached $65 billion, an 18% decline quarter over quarter, and a 49% drop compared to the second quarter of 2022, when startup investors spent $127 billion, according to Crunchbase. I tried to consolidate my thoughts as well as other perspectives from leading venture capital funds.

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Generative AI ChatGPT Startup 88

VC Cafe

APRIL 7, 2011

“Provigent is a unique asset with world-class microwave backhaul technology and strong engineering talent developing innovative and highly integrated semiconductor solutions for the microwave segment.&# – Rajiv Ramaswami, executive VP at Broadcom. Israel’s index of leading economic indicators rose a preliminary 0.4%

Java 79

Java Database Argentina 79

VC Cafe

MAY 12, 2016

Kenshoo – Programmatic advertising in search engines and social networks (Raised $65M). Redis Labs – Enterprise-grade open source NoSQL database (Raised $27M). Lightricks – Visual processing engine for mobile platforms, creators of Facetune and Enlight (Raised $10M).

Software Review 60

Software Review Analytics eCommerce 60

Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Security, Cloud, NoSQL databases, etc. The big advantage that we have as a venture capital firm over a hedge fund or a mutual fund is we have a 13-year lockup on our money. So the shift from buying a lot of servers and databases and software licenses and networking equipment, the shift instead to just renting it all.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The timing is perfect, there is more than a little overlap with Vivek Wadhwa’s guest post on venture capital earlier today. The best composition is probably one engineer whose passion lies in the pixels on the screen and another engineer whose passion is making bits fly really fast through servers. Sorry, folks.

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Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

abovethecrowd.com

JANUARY 30, 2015

Basically, the company’s immense historical database of supply and demand curves at different price points makes it easy to predict how these markets will evolve. This allows the company to “forward invest” capital to help these markets achieve lower consumer prices even faster. How could they make such an aggressive move? Jeff Bezos.

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