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A Tax Hike That Scares Away the Technorati? Fat Chance
— Earlier this week, tech entrepreneur Ethan Anderson compared a recently passed, temporary tax measure, Proposition 30, to expropriation and suggested it could “dampen enthusiasm for starting new business in California specifically.”
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| Connie Loizos / PE Hub Blog: |
Profitable Billtrust Takes $25M to Supercharge Growth
— Billtrust may be in the unglamorous business of outsourced bill processing, but Bain Capital Ventures finds it so irresistible, it's provided the company with $25 million in funding. — How to explain Billtrust's appeal?
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Silicon Valley Exec Shelby Bonnie Joins Allen & Co.
— Longtime Silicon Valley executive Shelby Bonnie started off his career as a financial analyst. He may wind up finishing it that way, too. According to his LinkedIn profile, Bonnie has just joined Allen & Co. as a managing director in the investment firm's San Francisco office.
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Andreessen Horowitz Has “Nearly Returned” Fund One, Yet Critics Remain
— Andreessen Horowitz has been shaking things up since debuting on the venture scene nearly three years ago; this week is no different. — After the New York Times published a recent piece, highlighting …
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Esther Dyson on the Angel Crowd: It's “Very Self-Referential”
— If Ron Conway is the godfather of Silicon Valley, Esther Dyson might well be considered the godmother. — At least, Dyson has been actively angel investing in startups roughly as long as Conway, and her track record …
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Scoop: Elevation Partners Looks to Raise up to $1.9B for Growth Fund
— Elevation Partners, the PE firm that sports Bono as a co-founder, is expected to begin formally raising a second fund soon, five sources tell peHUB. — With offices in New York and San Francisco, Elevation is currently …
Featured Startup - FormVerse — If there was one tool not made for effective work, it would have to be email. If you take silos of information, and a chronological effect, where old or new is piled on top of each other …
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
DevOps: Improved Productivity, Higher Value — Those of us who have been aligned with DevOps for some time already know that the greater agility and closer collaboration it enables deliver real business value for our organizations.
Get Started with Hadoop on Hortonworks Data Platform 1.1 for Windows — We are excited to release the Hortonworks Data Platform 1.1 for Windows as a Generally Available product.
Skype in the browser — Whether you like the Skype app or not, until now, you've had no choice but to download something to make voice and video calls — either an app like Skype, or a Flash plugin (yikes) for your browser.