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Larry Ellison: His public versus private cloud

deal architect

I first met Larry Ellison, briefly, in 1997. I have watched him infuriate competitors, drive analysts to drink, generate more quips than all boring tech execs put together. Over those 15 years I have also learned to look beyond his.

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Athenahealth Picks Austin for R&D Center and Plans to Create 600 Jobs

SiliconHills

The company, founded in 1997, provides cloud-based health information services for electronic medical records and other medical documents. Athenahealth announced plans to put a research and development center in Austin with plans to create 600 new jobs.

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: athenahealth

Seeing Both Sides

The theory is that with the advent of the cloud in the digital age, small businesses can leverage a suite of services from a technology vendor to manage all aspects of their work – from payments to record-keeping to marketing to customer communications. The company was originally founded in 1997 by Jonathan Bush (1st cousin of George W.)

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How did you become a hardcore back-end developer?

Diego Basch

Fast forward to 1997. Game-changing technologies become affordable (cloud computing, SSDs, insane amounts of memory). I started coding in the 80s. No web, no connectivity for the most part, just simple games, random programs, hardware drivers, random utilities. Basic, Pascal, Assembly, C. I download my first mp3, a novelty back then.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Back in 1997, when I was a high school junior and my brother Evan was a freshman, we launched a local moving service called Meathead Movers. This was followed by moderate success in starting my own cloud-based HR software. Thanks to Dr. Dan Danyo, North Atlanta Hair Restoration ! #4- 4- Started as a part-time work.

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Connecting the Dots: How New Job Creation, IPO’s, and Venture Capital in America Are Intimately Linked

Pascal's View

…While that door hasn’t closed, it has stalled, at least for the 125 issues waiting for the storm clouds to dissipate. capital markets for listed equities have been in systemic decline since 1997, while every other major international equity market has been growing. Of the 85 IPOs priced so far this year, only 28 are up.

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New VC-InsideOut Podcast: Best Practices for Building High-Performance Boards During Challenging Times

Pascal's View

often emotion clouds decision making.  We had an engaging and candid conversation, which included fielding questions from audience members including  Laurie Yoler, Managing Director of GrowthPoint Technology Partners. text-indent:-.42in;text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;vertical-align: 42in;text-indent:-.42in;text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;