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SAP Data & Analytics Analyst Summit - a review

deal architect

I was invited to an analyst summit on SAP's Data and Analytics portfolio of products. I had flown to a similar event in Vancouver - first to Seattle, then taken a bus across. What a remarkable difference from last year!

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Making The Most Of Your Business Capital

YoungUpstarts

Do you need to invest in production services to create more creative rich media? Video production is a worthy investment. For some small businesses, video production isn’t an easily attainable reality. For example, does the production company have their own production facility? How is quality control managed?

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Q4 2020 Portfolio Review

Version One Ventures

Pienza , a Seattle based B2B startup studio led by Bizible founder Aaron Bird, raised $5.1M. . seed to Figma-tize product collaboration. Product news. The company also welcomed Kelly Kramer to the Board of Directors, appointed Marc Andreessen from Board Observer to Board Director, and promoted Emilie Choi as president and COO.

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Announcing our investment in DemandStar, a marketplace for government procurement  

Version One Ventures

The Seattle-based company provides an online marketplace for business-to-government commerce – it connects local and national suppliers with government procurement officers. . Today we’re excited to announce that we led DemandStar ’s $2m seed round. It should come as no surprise that government procurement is riddled with inefficiency.

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The 20 Coolest CoWorking Spaces In The U.S.

YoungUpstarts

This coworking space is a pet-friendly hybrid of a social coffee shop and productive work place that’s affordable for independent workers. Providing productive shared working space, Hatchery members include Web 2.0 Right near Microsoft’s campus in Seattle, Thinkspace is a cool coworking spot for startups. Office Nomads.

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Unrequited Love

Steve Blank

The VC’s suggested I should spend a day at Onyx Software, an early pioneer in Sales Automation in Seattle. With an unexpected job offer in-hand I spent the plane flight home concluding that our family had already planted roots too deep to move to Seattle. So I called on my friends at Onyx and got on a plane to Seattle.

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The Story Behind My Investment In Downstream

Haystack

Earlier this summer, my friend Michael told me about a small investment his team made up in Seattle in the Amazon ecosystem. We were about to move houses and with all the impending details that process was generating, I initially didn’t give it a proper look.

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