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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. In other words, today is the slowest rate of technological change you will ever experience in your life and doing nothing is worse than doing something.

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Framework Benchmarks

TechEmpower

About What we do Portfolio People Blog Contact. Netty , Vert.x , and Java servlets are fast, but we were surprised how much faster they are than Ruby , Django , and friends. In third place is plain Java Servlets running on Cauchos Resin Servlet container. Java / JVM. You are viewing a single entry. March 28, 2013.

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My story and support for the Founders Visa

K9 Ventures

In my attempt to build credibility and recruit people for my little company, I had started the Pittsburgh Java Users Group (the PittJUG today has close to 500 members!). Technology leadership and innovation knows no bounds. Besides I was a young, first-time entrepreneur at the age of 23. There are smart people all over the world.

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Artificial Intelligence: Implications On Marketing, Analytics, And You

Occam's Razor

Our current red flags are sourced from what human means today, what works means today, what our relationship with technology means today. 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.). Humans push forward. Recognize, and exploit change.

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Net and VC Loyalty

BeyondVC

This means we do not fund a company because of what technology platform it chooses to develop on but rather what problem the company and product is solving and how big that opportunity is. It reminds me of a panel that I spoke on in 1997 at the Red Herring Java Technology Conference. Nothing has changed since then.

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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. Remember the eWeek article from last year titled " Is.Net failing to draw VC loyalty? " " and the corresponding discussion in the blogosphere, including my post ? It comes down to tradeoffs.

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How Falling In Love With My Product Killed My Business

Software By Rob

Within a year, I had a large format camera of my own, a growing portfolio, and a long list of tricks he taught me from his years in the art show business. Rogue Waveā€™s fall began during Javaā€™s rise to power in 1997-8. When everyone took notice of Java and abandoned C++ in droves, Rogue Waveā€™s revenues plummeted. I was hooked.

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