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Never Mind the Valley: Here's Paris

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There's a thriving geek culture in Paris, and no lack of software development expertise, thanks to superior universities that produce superior engineers. The startup scene is relatively young, however, which is partly due to some pretty fundamental cultural barriers. But these barriers are showing some wear and tear. The Big Players.

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You Shouldn’t Have to Pay to Talk To Your Own Customers

Austin Startup

Camtasia doesn’t own the screencasts I use their software to create. You don’t want to end up beholden to a third party for fundamental insights into your business, and you don’t want that same third party governing your interactions with your own users. Getting (Really) Real. Microsoft doesn’t own the documents I create in Word.

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The Courage to Monetize

Austin Startup

However, that is wishful thinking if your customer decision makers have budgets for percentage payments and software buying is handled by a different group and a different procurement process. Now it’s cost + markup + 14 layers of intermediaries who all get a cut = price paid by insurance or the government.

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Startup Shootaround: Inside a VC Team Meeting on the Drones Hype

View from Seed

Obviously, not only does this not scale efficiently, the rise in drones has caused a backlog that the government can’t really handle — I think I even saw this notice on the FAA website. TIM: I would say in between 4 and 5, but specifically in a B2B software. so similarly, I think drones will be mostly in that category.

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Cracking The Code: The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008.

Cracking the Code

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Save Asia for post-IPO Single instance, multi-tenant, single datacenter - Have only one version of the code in production. Labels: SaaS , sales and marketing , software. at 11:09 AM.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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Computer Software. Media & Marketing. Small Business. More Industries. Accounting. Advertising. Broadcasting & Entertainment. Computer Hardware. Consumer Products. Defense & Aerospace. Financial Services & Insurance. Food & Tobacco. Hospitality. Industrial Goods & Services. Marketing & Strategy. Media Agencies. Metals & Mining. NAME Comcast.

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20 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Industry With The Most Optimist Future

Hearpreneur

Governments around the world are adopting Digital Infrastructure for growth. Thanks to Noufal Bava, Epixel MLM Software ! #5- 5- Software, app, and web development. In a post-pandemic world, the healthtech industry is going to be central to governments, business, and society. Photo Credit: Darrell Rosenstein.