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Mark Hauser’s Hauser Private Equity Spearheads Major Deals in Industrial Sector

The Startup Magazine

With over three decades of experience in private equity investments, acquisitions and mergers, Mark Hauser has developed a keen ability to recognize trends and do his due diligence. with whom they co-invested in the data integrity software company Precisely.

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Customer Trust Is An Opportunity With A Huge Payback

Startup Professionals Musings

There are others, like Norton LifeLock , acquired in 2017 by Symantec for $2.3 I see lots of new software put together on a shoestring as a “proof of concept” – but then gets rolled out to customers “asis” due to lack of time or money to “harden” the product. Don’t take shortcuts on these.

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An Updated Joel Test for 2017

Austin Startup

The software development landscape has changed a lot in that time, but time-honored principles remain so. Here’s my take on an updated Joel Test for 2017, based on my career experience and how we build software at VidiGuard. Do you fix bugs before writing new code? Do new candidates write code during their interview?

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26 Entrepreneurs Explain Their Major Accomplishments in 2017

Hearpreneur

2017 was a bad year for some and for some it was a great year. In the last few days of 2017, we took some time to ask a few entrepreneurs and business what their biggest business accomplishments were. #1- I had my 8 months expenses saved by May of 2017 and put it my two weeks notice at that time. 1- Top rankings.

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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 4- Semiconductors

Steve Blank

Please watch the video, review the slides and blog posts]. They heard from a professor that the ratio of Stanford students taking software versus hardware courses was 10-to-1 software, a complete reversal from decades ago. Steve Blank, “ The Secret History of Silicon Valley ” Steve Blank , November 20, 2008. Optional Rebecca S.

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AI Startups Need Data, and the Government Needs Help

ReadWriteStart

Due to their unique oversight, governments have a surplus of data at their fingertips. social media giants, product review sites, and travel companies) to be wary of sharing large customer datasets. Businesses must do diligence to guarantee government agencies and private-sector agencies take that responsibility seriously.

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How MakeSpace Recently Closed $30 million in New Funding

Both Sides of the Table

So how did a company that provides storage grow so fast (we’ll exit 2017 with 10’s of millions in recurring revenue), why is it so defensible and is it really a tech startup? years of software development. We have built route management software so that drivers have productive routes and can cluster pick-ups and drop-offs.