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Daily Crunch: Investors back away from Dispo

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Zoom introduces new SDK to help developers tap into video services — The company envisions application developers embedding video in social, gaming or retail applications. Startups, funding and venture capital. Advice and analysis from Extra Crunch. The tech giants.

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The Big VC Thaw – Why The Market is Moving Again (part 2 of 3)

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So what is driving the new energy in the remaining venture capital firms when we kept hearing how much the whole industry was “against the ropes?&# … 1. note: there is one rare exception – in 2006 Sevin Rosen declared that Venture Capital was broken and actually returned money to their LPs !

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Are Business Plans Still Necessary?

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This is part of my ongoing series of posts and I need to file this one under both Raising Venture Capital and Startup Advice. Many of these businesses were what First Round Capital called FNACs (features, not companies – this acronym has always stuck with me). That died with waterfall software development.

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Extra Crunch roundup: RapidSOS EC-1, how to prep for an M&A exit, inside Genki Forest

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“It’s closed dozens of partnerships and business development deals, and with some of the biggest names in tech. Startups developing so-called deep tech often find it challenging to raise capital for various reasons. I don’t think you need to limit advice from people who are “been there, done that.”

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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

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Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice. This ended up developing into Visual Basic for Applications , the strategy for programmability in Microsoft Office. Do you see product managers as a hindrance to software development? 15 minutes.