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WP Engine passes $100M in revenue and secures $250M investment from Silver Lake

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

The Silicon Valley-oriented technology press outlets don’t cover us because we’re not in San Francisco, even though we’re more successful than most of the startups they cover. This week we closed $250M in financing from Silver Lake , the premier technology private equity firm.

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A Look at What’s Fueling Startup Investments in Colombia

ReadWriteStart

Here’s a look at three factors fueling investor interest in Colombia’s technology startups. Colombia is an attractive market for technology companies. The eCommerce industry is growing steadily, with a 24% increase in the number of digital transactions from 2016 to 2017. A growing, increasingly connected consumer base.

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Pay Your Payroll Tax With R&D Credits

YoungUpstarts

The research activities must be technological in nature; in other words, they must rely on the sciences such as engineering, physics, chemistry, biology, computer science, etc. The R&D credit rewards businesses for making evolutionary steps in any particular technology. Who qualifies for the R&D credit?

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Understanding Virtual Data Rooms And Their Significance Today

YoungUpstarts

Before the advent of cloud technology and the Internet, company files had to be stored away in physical data rooms (PDRs). A 2012 study done by IBISWorld revealed that VDRs experienced a steady growth of about 17 percent annually as a result of technological advancements as well as the growth of global demand for these storage services.

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What Happens When Startups Turn from Their Innovation Stage to Operational Excellence?

Both Sides of the Table

Sam also had a vision as early as 2012 about how MakeSpace would be a large employer of middle-income jobs: The company would hire employees rather than just have contractors and he would lead the effort to ensure they had opportunities for growth and benefits for their families. Seriously, this happens.

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Announcing Multicoin Capital

Austin Startup

Although we were studying finance, we were always more interested in tech. Take a look at some of the emails between us from 2010: We were attending NYU from 2008–2012. But we never lost the finance bug. As Ethereum took off in 2017, we began taking Ethereum profits and investing in more speculative crypto protocols.

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Platinum Rapid Funding Group: How To Run a Successful Team

The Startup Magazine

Having set up shop in 2012, Platinum Rapid Funding harnesses its technology, manpower, proprietary data and resources, and unique business model to deliver what it currently does. Where do you see Platinum Rapid Funding Group going in 2017? By the end of 2017, we foresee associating with a lot more industries and businesses.