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Why We Shouldn’t Be In Love With Startups 

ReadWriteStart

Construction, utilities, transportation, retail, finance, insurance and real estate startups are industries that hit hardest on startups with an average failure rate among them of 40%. I have close friends in accounting and finance that have tapped into newer businesses and taken the ride with them as they have doubled and then doubled again.

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Why We Shouldn’t Be In Love With Startups 

ReadWriteStart

For instance, I saw a local, Seattle startup with a high-value exact-match domain name that (if they launched in this segment) would have put them in direct competition with the likes of Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud. In some cases, finding a serviceable niche among startup businesses can be very lucrative.

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$43.2 Million That Can Help You

Growthink Blog

Get Satisfaction Inc. ( [link] ) raised $6 million led by Azure Capital Partners. Rypple ( [link] ) raised $7 million in a financing round led by Bridgescale Partners. These following six companies fell into this category. Collectively these companies just raised $43.2

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The Microsoft Accelerator, round 2!

David Cohen

Most of those companies from the Kinect program are doing great, and many have gone on to raise venture capital or angel financing since the program ended. The second Microsoft Accelerator program is focused on Windows Azure began Monday.

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boldstart in 2016, enterprise tech in 2017

BeyondVC

4 of our portfolio companies raised Series B financings with close to $70mm raised and an average financing size greater than $17mm?—?announced 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.

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Joining Get Satisfaction

Venture Chronicles

As I started to get more involved in the day-to-day management at Get Satisfaction, and with the impending completion of the financing event, I was confronted with a choice to make about returning to the workplace in a full time capacity. Tags: Get Satisfaction Azure Capital First Round OATV Social CRM.

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FinTech Innovation Lab Launch Event – June 2, 2011

David Teten

Very enthusiastic about the potential for the NY tech ecosystem, leveraging our strength in finance. Packaged platforms (Force.com/EC2/Azure) are much more likely to succeed than a pure infrastructure play. Java/Azure appliances will come in. Introductory remarks. Maria Gotsch. Leveraging our strength in financial services.