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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

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We had to buy Oracle database licenses, UNIX servers, a Sun Solaris operating system, web servers, load balancers, EMC storage, disk mirrors for redundancy and had to commit to a year-long hosting agreement at places such as Exodus. Linux (instead of UNIX), Apache (web server software), MySQL (instead of Oracle) and PHP.

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Cornerstone Names New Chief Product Officer

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Awatramani has previously served at such companies as Adobe, Marketo, Oracle, and Siebel, and was most recently Head of Product and GTM at Adobe; he had joined Adobe after the company acquired Marketo in 2018. Cornerstone said that Awatramani will lead its product strategy, management, and design. READ MORE>>.

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Puking On The Emotional Startup Rollercoaster

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Approximately a year later, the company’s revenues had grown significantly and there were no chest bumps after we finalized a multiple six-figure sale to Oracle. Image Credit: Roller Coaster designed by Luis Prado from the Noun Project. after closing a $10,000 deal. For What The Bell Tolls. Share and Enjoy.

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Why Early-Stage VCs Should Be Careful About Intros from Bankers

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I tapped my friends at big tech companies (Salesforce, Google, Oracle). So if I’m the guy in the audience feeling the power of that great baritone projection with that beautifully designed product and if I am able to fund that company I’m guessing it falls into Paul’s category of a bad startup looking good.

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Everything about Java 8

TechEmpower

The Java 8 javadocs are hosted locally for the time being because I don't know of an official, Oracle-hosted location for them. When Oracle eventually hosts them, I'll change the links to point to the official home for the javadocs. It had the best support for the Java 8 language features at the time I went looking.

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Interview with John Hanna, FunnelSource

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I'd used every CRM tool out there--Oracle, Siebel, PeopleSoft--you name it, I've used it. I don't know if you're familiar with LucidEra, a company in this area which shut down earlier this year, but we're different in that their application is designed for five executives in a company. They had to pull the plug. Speaking of Force.

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The Importance of Proprietary Deal Flow in Early-Stage VC

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I tapped my friends at big tech companies (Salesforce, Google, Oracle). They are designed to help good companies to get access to investors but also help to make bad companies look good. Of course I went through normal other channels of deal flow. I spent time on college campuses. I asked for intro’s from entrepreneur friends.