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Why We Shouldn’t Be In Love With Startups 

ReadWriteStart

All while the majority of the economy is driven greatly by boring industries often owned by private equity, not venture capital. Many Startups Lack Demand. One feature that is prevalent among many failing (or soon-to-be-failing) startups is an overall lack of demand. Without demand, startups falter and ultimately fail.

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Why We Shouldn’t Be In Love With Startups 

ReadWriteStart

All while the majority of the economy is driven greatly by boring industries often owned by private equity, not venture capital. Many Startups Lack Demand In both funding startups and servicing them, I have seen almost every idea under the sun. Without demand, startups falter and ultimately fail.

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boldstart in 2016, enterprise tech in 2017

BeyondVC

Yes, AWS and Azure will garner a bulk of this, but still requires significant new investment to easily monitor, manage and secure this sprawling infrastructure. Fortune 1000 companies continue their slow but steady march to the cloud unlocking significant $$$.

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Accel 2021 Euroscape: On the path to global dominance?

Cracking the Code

The development of Azure and the shift to the cloud has propelled the company to new heights. The rapid rise of crypto and DeFi infrastructure - Institutional demand is rising and major banks and payments players are now incorporating crypto payments / custody.

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Viola Private Equity Pumps $7 Million into Zend

VC Cafe

Zend has raised $37 million to date, most recently adding $9 million to its coffers in a round led by previous investors including: Greylock Partners, Index Ventures, Azure Capital Partners, Intel Capital,SAP Ventures. According to Linkedin , Zend has a headcount of 130.

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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning– Explained

Steve Blank

Instead of investing in massive amounts of computers needed for training companies can use the enormous on-demand, off-premises hardware in the cloud (e.g. Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure) for both training machine learning models and deploying inferences. Some cloud vendors train on >10TB data sets. We’re Just Getting Started.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

How can we spin up our SharePoint enabled Web Parts which are Windows Phone Capable to be deployed on Azure? It was just the command shell that demanded backward slashes. There’s so much demand out there for programmers/engineers, that good programmers can choose what they work on and in what language.

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