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Congrats to Backupify! A Great Exit Story for the First Company I Ever Backed

This is going to be BIG.

It was written by a guy about my age down in Louisville, Kentucky. We stayed in touch and I got to know a bunch of the Louisville startup and creative crew, like Todd Earwood, Matt Winn, and Ashley Cecil. Venture Capital & Technology' I started reading a great blog called Business Pundit in 2004.

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In Cloud We Trust: First Round invests in Backupify

This is going to be BIG.

Ironically enough, you could say that this is a project that the market dragged Rob into kicking and screaming. Rob's had a number of conversations with key market players around business development and is open to more. Tags: First Round Capital Venture Capital & Technology. and even a little while after that.

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For Startups, 2012 Swung From Consumers To The Enterprise

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As the year went on, startups that target the consumer market had an increasingly hard time getting funded. For perspective on 2012, we talked to Jeff Fagnan, partner at leading venture capital firm Atlas Venture and an investor in early-stage startups since 2000. Blame Facebook. Blame Groupon and Zynga.