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Does Fintech Disruption Break The Investment Banking Model?

YoungUpstarts

This combinatorial model works because it’s diversified, can best withstand bear markets, benefits from technological synergies, and it’s the mix of products and services clients value. To dig deeper, let’s first review the influence of technology on the core components. However each component will change dramatically.

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Virtual Data Room Cybersecurity is the Latest Business Opportunity

The Startup Magazine

A VDR is an internet database in which companies’ share and store private information used during financial transactions. IPOs are difficult company transactions as it requires companies to go public. VDR provides the necessary channel through which such companies can survive and launch careful IPO document management and retention.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

Let me start with the obvious baseline that most people probably know instinctively: Los Angeles is the 3rd largest technology startup ecosystem in the US. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. When you begin to peel back the onion some surprising data presents itself.

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The Enterprise Strikes Back

BeyondVC

Look at the Dropbox IPO which priced above its initial value and came out white hot at the end of one of the worst weeks in stock market performance. Serverless technologies…. PCF integrates an expansive set of critical, modern software technologies to provide a turnkey cloud-native platform.

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Want to Start a Technology Company in LA?

Both Sides of the Table

And we’re left with a city with idyllic weather, major commerce, the media center of the world, and a great emerging technology scene. But we have a great city for building technology companies. You can find very talented technology executives. But we do have great technology developers. You don’t.

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This Week in VC: Michael Montgomery (President, Montgomery & Co.)

Both Sides of the Table

If you don’t know Montgomery & Co it is one of the premier technology & media focused investment banks in the country (and as Michael corrected me they also have a strong Healthcare / Med tech practice). What does the market look like for IPO’s and is this likely to improve? We discussed: 1. 1 party = low price.

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The Other Amazon Deal this week. Drupal founder attracts over $100 Million in 3 months.

Scalable Startup

Over its 13 year life the web has vastly changed from primarily static pages to dynamic database driven automated (“rendered”) web page serving, which Drupal excels at. Dries has carefully pushed the technology not to the bleeding edge, but towards the modern edge where enterprises are comfortable. What will come next?

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