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EMC buys portfolio company Greenplum - more behind the story

BeyondVC

We also leveraged the open source database platform PostgreSQL as the initial foundation for our technology. Little do people know that when Dawntreader first funded Dali Media along with Impact Venture Partners and Primedia Ventures that the company was called Dali Media and then Metapa, standing for media to all places.

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EMC buys portfolio company Greenplum – more behind the story

BeyondVC

We also leveraged the open source database platform PostgreSQL as the initial foundation for our technology. Little do people know that when Dawntreader first funded Dali Media along with Impact Venture Partners and Primedia Ventures that the company was called Dali Media and then Metapa, standing for media to all places.

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Out of the Crisis #12: Curative founder Fred Turner and Celine Halioua on diagnostic supply chains, scaling up testing, and partnering with government

Startup Lessons Learned

This is an incredible story of entrepreneurial speed in action, of yet another entrepreneur putting their normal business on hold to get into the fight against the pandemic. I think I took the first two or three meetings with Fred's lead investor, which is pretty funny. Eric Ries : So, what was the investor reaction like?

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Understanding the Risks of VC Signaling

Both Sides of the Table

I know many super experienced entrepreneurs who don’t understand the basics of how fund size and age can affect them so I thought it was worth establishing a baseline. First, if the VC does 15-20 of these under one partner then it is certain he can’t spend any time with these investments. And they don’t.

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9 Tips for Raising Startup Funds on AngelList

mashable.com

AngelList is brilliantly designed to make it easy for investors to write checks to entrepreneurs. Naval and Nivi , the founders of AngelList, took the very best social mechanics from Facebook , Twitter and LinkedIn to create a “social proof” that ultimately makes investors comfortable writing checks. 3 Comments.