Entrepreneurs like Steve Blank have spent a lot of time thinking (and writing) about how ineffective old-fashioned board meetings are for startups. LeanLaunchLab is a startup building software that could finally do away with the boardroom, or at least bring it into the 21st century.…
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Larry Summers to join VC firm Andreessen Horowitz
After taking a place on Square's board of director's last week, former U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers is now continuing his Silicon Valley blitz by joining venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz as a part-time special advisor.…
Read MoreHeroku: Peer pressure is a sales strategy
When it comes to getting major companies to embrace building their applications in the cloud, Salesforce and its newly acquired platform-as- a-service company Heroku are relying on a tried-and-true method: Peer pressure.…
Read MoreData is the new platform, and social is the intelligence
The days of viewing everything in the cloud through an application lens is nearing its end. Instead, we are evolving into a world where quantity, processing speeds and distribution of data compel IT professional to see data as a platform in its own right.…
Read MoreUbiquiti Networks IPO shows infrastructure market heating up
Ubiquiti, the wireless technology provider, filed IPO paperwork with the SEC recently, following hot on the heels of the Boingo and Fusion-io IPOs. Though VCs, including Sequoia's Michael Goguen, are bullish on the activity in infrastructure, it's too soon to say how it will pan out.…
Read MoreThe cloud and the “sneak attack” for enterprise sales
Not too long ago, getting a great new enterprise software tool into the hands of actual businesses was a daunting task that required a lot more than a cool product. It required a huge sales team and a strategy. Enter the cloud.…
Read MoreCloud computing is Latin America’s great equalizer
Here in the United States,cloud computing has allowed emerging companies to build much faster and much cheaper.But in Latin America, the development of the cloud has been nothing short of transformative. And developments are moving rapidly.…
Read MoreAmazon’s “state of the cloud” — it isn’t stacking up
Amazon CTO Werner Vogels declared stacks a thing of the past during his "state of the cloud" address at GigaOm's Structure event in San Francisco. Vogels said that the cloud today is about building applications by bringing different services together.…
Read MoreVC industry laments lack of IPOs
More than 80 percent of venture capitalists surveyed for the 2011 Global Venture Capital Survey said current IPO activity levels in their home countries are still too low to support the health of the market.…
Read MoreDealsGoRound’s offers central wallet for managing daily deals
DealsGoRound, a secondary marketplace where users can buy and sell daily deals, is launching a digital wallet service. Now deal addicts the world over can manage their deals all in one place, and receive an alert when a deal is about to expire.…
Read MoreFor GILD, a good programmer shouldn’t be hard to find
For GILD, recruiting is more than a pile of resumes or a referral from a friend. The startup is trying to turn hiring into a science, and is gaining a following among programmers from San Francisco to Katmandu.…
Read MoreGroupon in China: Ebay all over again?
Just because it works in the United States, doesn't mean it will work in China. It's a lesson some of our biggest tech brands have learned the hard way. And as Groupon attempts expands east, critics say its already making the same mistakes.…
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