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How can startups engage Amazon and AWS

VC Cafe

After covering Google startup outreach and support (from first hand experience), today I’m happy to add Amazon and AWS, by looking into the variety of ways startups can engage with the commerce and cloud giant. The information in this post was provided and fact checked by AWS managers Moran Nir and Jonno Southam.

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From Seed to Series A

Reid Hoffman

The term “early-stage” covers a lot of territory in venture investing, from incubating a brand-new idea, to investing in a Series A. They’ve been thinking about this problem, of how to give security teams visibility into cloud apps, for years and years, and knew how to deploy [Series A level capital].

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

We’ve seen some modest progress in people upgrading from Excel to Google Sheets; use of some CRM; and a cloud-based storage service. In venture capital in particular, early-stage companies are often operating in frontier industries, where the rules are unpredictable and conventional analytic frameworks may be misleading.

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Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010

SoCal CTO

So, I’ve had about 4 years on the “inside” of a fast-growing, venture-backed B2B SaaS startup. The collapse of the IPO market and dysfunctional math in the venture capital community has stacked the odds against you. VC asked me to have lunch with the CEO of a startup building cloud-based enterprise software. Here’s why.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. Startups for startups – the top B2B tools used by Startups – Includes the list of top 50 startup vendors in 2012 by Vendorstack , a reviews and Q&A platform on enterprise vendors for startups and mid-market companies. Ning Communities.

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Ask a New Investor: Pedro Sorrentino of FundersClub

Hippoland

About Pedro (from his personal website pedrosorren.com & his words): Pedro Sorrentino is a Venture Associate at FundersClub, focused on early stage and series-A investments. We also connect our strong founder community together. It must be a technology or tech-enabled company. So no pure e-commerce plays, for instance.

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New Web Order - Finding a Technical Co-Founder

nikcub.appspot.com

Hang out in tech entrepreneur rich communities. Perhaps the easiest way to find potential technical co-founders is to hang out in both online and offline communities where technical entrepreneurs gather. There are many online tech communities, but here are just a few: Hacker News - Probably a must-engage site. just an example)).