New Survey from Fenwick & West Looks at Angel Funding Landscape
Since 2002, the law form of Fenwick & West has conducted a venture capital survey, a response to “the burst of the ‘dot-come bubble’ and a desire to provide the entrepreneurial community with...
View ArticleNetSuite Is Pushing into Enterprise Software, Lands Groupon as Marquee Customer
NetSuite, one of the handful of companies to build a big company out of the early 2000s software-as-a-service funding scrum, is now making a push into cloud based enterprise software, according to...
View ArticleScala in the Enterprise: Creator Launches New Professional Support Company
In discussions about which programming language, if any, could succeed Java in the enterprise, Scala comes up a lot. Scala is a highly scalable functional programming language with support for...
View ArticleWhat Makes A Startup Successful? Blackbox Report Aims To Map The Startup Genome
Generally speaking, the odds are stacked heavily against the average startup. The rate of failure among entrepreneurs and startups is startlingly high — it comes with the territory. Otherwise,...
View ArticlePandora Puts The “P” In IPO — Our Talk With Them On The Big Day
Three years ago, I got a phone call — Pandora was about to die. Things were not going well for the Internet radio service at that point. The economy was collapsing, Sequoia would soon give its...
View ArticleNew Health-Focused Startup Accelerator Rock Health Debuts Inaugural Batch
If the numbers shared by Gigaom in this infographic are any indication, Venture funding has stormed back to where it was before the financial collapse in 2008. The amount of capital invested is on the...
View ArticleFacebook Trapped In MySQL a ‘Fate Worse Than Death’
wasimkadak writes with this excerpt from GigaOM: “According to database pioneer Michael Stonebraker, Facebook is operating a huge, complex MySQL implementation equivalent to ‘a fate worse than death,’...
View ArticleThe Web vs. the Cloud: Which Metaphor Survives?
Ask yourself this: Would you install ReadWriteWeb as an app? You might, if you were convinced that it did something useful for you, and if you didn’t have to pay much (or anything) for it. You may...
View ArticleHow to Own Your Startup’s Niche
There are a lot of consumer-facing Web startups out there – maybe too many. Now that it’s easier, faster and cheaper to launch a Web business than ever before, entrepreneurs are under increasing...
View ArticleMeet the Lawyer Suing Anyone Who Uses SSL
Sparrowvsrevolution writes “Since 2008, Dallas, Texas attorney Erich Spangenberg and his company TQP have been launching suits against hundreds of firms, claiming that merely by using SSL, they’ve...
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