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What’s FinTech, And What Does It Mean For Your Business?

YoungUpstarts

Some claim that all possible interactions of finance and technology, which I guess includes credit cards – the 1950’s invention, are FinTech. There’s no longer a need for aspiring entrepreneurs to visit banks or even seek for investors to get financed. If there is demand for what you offer, you’ll get the money shortly.

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The Rise Of Cloud Computing

YoungUpstarts

Cloud computing has become a buzzword in the recent years, with numerous companies providing the technology to enable organizations to access applications over a network to remote computing sites. It delivers on-demand, self-servicing capacity so as to allow users to run applications through a simple administrative console.

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Bitfusion Flex:

Austin Startup

Today, May 2nd, two years from the day I invested in the angel round, the company announces Series A financing with major institutional support and launches Bitfusion Flex in beta. Even more, they could hugely benefit from the flexibility and hardware simplification of the compute virtualization engine Bitfusion developed.

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Boston Tech Community, Sept 2011

Rob Go

Entrepreneurial Development Firms. Thoughtbot - Web application development and design. Not Boston focused, but definitely follow his reports of PE and VC financings and the state of the venture market. @danprimack. Dataxu - Demand Side Platform for Real Time Ad Buying. Bocoup - JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3.

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How To Disrupt The Investing Business, With Katina Stefanova (Ex-Bridgewater Management Committee)

David Teten

Asset managers have to not only satisfy a more demanding, more skeptical and more educated investor base that has evolved during the tribulations of the last few years, but also meet the increasing regulatory requirements arising by the government’s desire to limit macro-economic volatility. That has to be balanced with not stagnating growth.

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Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO

rapidrollout.wordpress.com

He or she might call himself a “consulting CTO,&# “freelance CTO,&# “on-demand CTO,&# “CTO on call,&# “CTO for hire,&# or just a “technology strategy advisor.&# If you haven’t noticed from my web site or blog, I work as a web applications developer and a consulting CTO.

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Boston Tech Community – August 2012

Rob Go

Entrepreneurial Development Firms. Thoughtbot - Web application development and design. Not Boston focused, but definitely follow his reports of PE and VC financings and the state of the venture market. @danprimack. Dataxu - Demand Side Platform for Real Time Ad Buying. Hack/Reduce – Big Data Hackspace.

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