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boldstart in 2017, enterprise tech inĀ 2018

BeyondVC

6 portfolio companies raised Series A financings including Manifold , Hypr , and 4 unannounced, 1 raised a Series B (unannounced), and Security Scorecard raised a $28mm Series C. Expect this trend to continue and what this means is that CIOs will take a portfolio approach, make some bets, and double down on their winners.

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Artificial Intelligence: Implications On Marketing, Analytics, And You

Occam's Razor

I'm thinking of how to give them a portfolio of skills, rather than just be happy they are an engineer or a teacher or a plumber.). Even at his young age he programs in Java, he has learned Perl, JavaScript, and other web technologies. The ability to be happy – I'm paranoid about this one.). Discipline. (Be

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Platform Wars, battle for startup mindshare

BeyondVC

Well, it seems that SAP is taking a page out of the old Java venture fund camp to seed companies and help them build on a Netweaver platform. As I mentioned before, I do not fund a company based on what platform they build on but if they choose one that is not open source then there better be a go-to-market reason for it.

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Web 2.0 Bubble

BeyondVC

Or when everyone said they were a Java company when Java was the cool buzzword. While getting in early and being nimble is a great way to make money, no matter how early you go, it is hard to build a sustainable VC portfolio investing in features. Frankly I do not care if you are Web 2.0, Early bird, worm, and all that.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

for anyone needing user interface, design and branding for their project visit my portfolio: [link] we love to build bold identities for fresh ideas. 6 I havent done a ton of hiring (only a little) and have found the freelancing sites to be a poor source for quality work. Pay more attention to actual websites, blogs, and portfolios.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. High Quality, and open sourced! t have time to learn iOS or Java during the weekend. Mantis (Open source). Nagios (open source). Panda (Open source). Use Sendgrid!