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Bad returns be damned: Venture capital fundraising jumps 31 percent in U.S

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VENTURE CAPITAL. You are here: Home / Startups / Bad returns be damned: Venture capital fundraising jumps 31 percent in U.S. Bad returns be damned: Venture capital fundraising jumps 31 percent in U.S. Filed Under: Startups , Tech Tagged With: Madrona , Startups , Tech , Venture capital.

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Quickly Unpacking Microsoft’s Acquisition Of GitHub

Haystack

Not yet profitable but invaluable to developers worldwide, the decade-old company bootstrapped, differentiated from formidable competitors GitLab and Atlassian’s BitBucket, weathered leadership upheavals, and eventually ingested lots of venture capital which helped them weather the challenges they faced.

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$43.2 Million That Can Help You

Growthink Blog

Now that summer is officially over, venture capital activity is picking up. I just reviewed the many companies who recently raised venture capital with an eye towards those that are offering products and services that could benefit other entrepreneurs and business owners. Collectively these companies just raised $43.2

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FinTech Innovation Lab Launch Event – June 2, 2011

David Teten

The trick is delivering business insights over this channel: use social networks to support relationship management. I think android / 4g networks will take over tablets. FRIED: Prevalent notion of a corporate network is very antiquated: a firewall around it and unlimited communication within. Java/Azure appliances will come in.

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Microsoft’s Bing Fund will give online startups cash, advice, and discounts

venturebeat.com

Venture capital. Social networking. Additionally, Microsoft will provide its startups with four to eight months of advice, design and development help, discounted access to Microsoft’s Azure Data Marketplace APIs, and introductions to potential partners or customers. From $1.5B Editor’s picks. Cloud services.

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The Startup Pivot

Reid Hoffman

Microsoft went from MS-DOS to Windows to Office to many new reinventions, including Azure. I’m not saying this because I’m trying to pump up the venture capital industry; it’s based on my experiences as an entrepreneur, where I had great VC partners (and some not so great ones). Apple went from Apple II to the Macintosh to iOS.

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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 company weighs in at more than half (55%) of the entire group and grew its market cap by $600B+ - more than the nine other companies combined! In 2014, when Satya Nadella succeeded Steve Ballmer and became CEO, Microsoft was worth $330B.

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