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April 04 2012
Need A New Name For Your Website? Why Not NameStation?
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You've dropped out of college, met a dude who is totally into PHP, and you're ready to build a startup. Where do you begin? With a name, silly! That's where NameStation.com comes in. It's basically a naming tool for creators and creatives who need to build a bunch of odd names on the fly. In the short time I spent with the app, I found a few great website names including a name for my new gaming start-up, fragron.com, and my artisinal pig delivery service, porkst.com. Ok. Maybe they need a little work, but you get the idea. The service can offer potential names in multiple languages and even "reads" the name out loud for you in case you weren't sure how to pronounce it.
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You've dropped out of college, met a dude who is totally into PHP, and you're ready to build a startup. Where do you begin? With a name, silly! That's where NameStation.com comes in. It's basically a naming tool for creators and creatives who need to build a bunch of odd names on the fly. In the short time I spent with the app, I found a few great website names including a name for my new gaming start-up, fragron.com, and my artisinal pig delivery service, porkst.com. Ok. Maybe they need a little work, but you get the idea. The service can offer potential names in multiple languages and even "reads" the name out loud for you in case you weren't sure how to pronounce it.
Acceleprise Wants To Be The 500 Startups For Enterprise Tech
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Let the proliferation of vertically-themed startup accelerators continue! Today, a new accelerator focusing on the enterprise sector is launching in Washington D.C. Called "Acceleprise," the program's goal is to invest in 60 enterprise software companies over the next three years. Participating startups should be trying to solve problems facing large organizations, whether the Fortune 5000, large nonprofits, or government.
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Let the proliferation of vertically-themed startup accelerators continue! Today, a new accelerator focusing on the enterprise sector is launching in Washington D.C. Called "Acceleprise," the program's goal is to invest in 60 enterprise software companies over the next three years. Participating startups should be trying to solve problems facing large organizations, whether the Fortune 5000, large nonprofits, or government.
April 03 2012
Jonathan Heiliger: From Yahoo’s ISP To Facebook’s Infrastructure To Being A North Bridge VC
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If you're familiar with Jonathan Heiliger's work, it's probably because you used Facebook sometime in the last five years. He was the person in charge of keeping the site online as it grew from 35 million to more than 800 million users. Or, maybe you've encountered his efforts over the past decade and half when you logged online -- because he helped build some of the core technologies and businesses that ran sites like Yahoo, starting fresh out of high school in the 90s. Next time you hear about him, it might also be because of the next hot company that blows up in Silicon Valley. But this time he'll be one of its investors. He's joining North Bridge Venture Partners today, a firm that has quietly distinguished itself by focusing on infrastructure and enterprise startups over the last two decades.
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If you're familiar with Jonathan Heiliger's work, it's probably because you used Facebook sometime in the last five years. He was the person in charge of keeping the site online as it grew from 35 million to more than 800 million users. Or, maybe you've encountered his efforts over the past decade and half when you logged online -- because he helped build some of the core technologies and businesses that ran sites like Yahoo, starting fresh out of high school in the 90s. Next time you hear about him, it might also be because of the next hot company that blows up in Silicon Valley. But this time he'll be one of its investors. He's joining North Bridge Venture Partners today, a firm that has quietly distinguished itself by focusing on infrastructure and enterprise startups over the last two decades.
RIM Releases Mobile Fusion Device Management Service, Plays Nice With iOS And Android
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The folks at RIM can see the writing on the wall — they’ve historically enjoyed plenty of enterprise love, but the recent “bring your own device” trend means headaches not only for RIM, but for the companies that have to manage all of them. In a move to hang on to relevance in the business market, the Waterloo company has officially released their Mobile Fusion device management platform, which aims to simplify how businesses manage a fleet of iOS, Android, and BlackBerry devices.
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The folks at RIM can see the writing on the wall — they’ve historically enjoyed plenty of enterprise love, but the recent “bring your own device” trend means headaches not only for RIM, but for the companies that have to manage all of them. In a move to hang on to relevance in the business market, the Waterloo company has officially released their Mobile Fusion device management platform, which aims to simplify how businesses manage a fleet of iOS, Android, and BlackBerry devices.
February 29 2012
AffinityLive Debuts To Help Businesses Manage Operations In The Cloud
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Oracle and SAP have been offering ERP (enterprise resource planning) software for sometime now to help businesses manage operations, including billing, time sheets and more. But small businesses can't afford some of these legacy solutions and are looking for a simpler, easy to use product in the cloud. Enter AffinityLive, a SaaS that essentially helps businesses manage all of their work, and data in the cloud. As founder Geoff McQueen tells me, many small businesses are using tools like Excel to manage data. AffinityLive basically manages all client work, from prospect through to payment, and everything in between in one integrated system.
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Oracle and SAP have been offering ERP (enterprise resource planning) software for sometime now to help businesses manage operations, including billing, time sheets and more. But small businesses can't afford some of these legacy solutions and are looking for a simpler, easy to use product in the cloud. Enter AffinityLive, a SaaS that essentially helps businesses manage all of their work, and data in the cloud. As founder Geoff McQueen tells me, many small businesses are using tools like Excel to manage data. AffinityLive basically manages all client work, from prospect through to payment, and everything in between in one integrated system.
ReportGrid Launches Precog To Help You Turn Big Data Into Smarter Apps
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Back in October, ReportGrid raised $750K from investors like Launch Capital, David Cohen, Walt Winshall, Doug Derwin, and Ed Roman -- not long after it graduated from TechStars' summer program in Boulder. The interest in ReportGrid was due to the fact that the company offers data analytics as a service (or DAaaS, if you prefer), providing companies with nifty scalable cloud database and visualization engine. In this way, it's meant to be a turnkey, hosted alternative for developers to save them from having to build their own.
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Back in October, ReportGrid raised $750K from investors like Launch Capital, David Cohen, Walt Winshall, Doug Derwin, and Ed Roman -- not long after it graduated from TechStars' summer program in Boulder. The interest in ReportGrid was due to the fact that the company offers data analytics as a service (or DAaaS, if you prefer), providing companies with nifty scalable cloud database and visualization engine. In this way, it's meant to be a turnkey, hosted alternative for developers to save them from having to build their own.
EmployInsight Grabs $1M For Its Employee Measurement Platform (And NYSE As Its First Client)
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EmployInsight, a web-based platform for measuring and quantifying employees' "soft skills" in the workplace, has raised $1 million+ from Founder Collective, Launch Capital, Sean Glass, Phil Bronner, Jarrod Yuster, David Cohen, Gus Fuldner and other angels, the company is announcing today. The startup is also revealing one of its first enterprise clients, and it's a big one: the New York Stock Exchange is up-and-running on EmployInsight's first product, a hiring application called HireInsight.
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EmployInsight, a web-based platform for measuring and quantifying employees' "soft skills" in the workplace, has raised $1 million+ from Founder Collective, Launch Capital, Sean Glass, Phil Bronner, Jarrod Yuster, David Cohen, Gus Fuldner and other angels, the company is announcing today. The startup is also revealing one of its first enterprise clients, and it's a big one: the New York Stock Exchange is up-and-running on EmployInsight's first product, a hiring application called HireInsight.
February 23 2012
Walkie-Talkie App Voxer Popular With Investors, Too, Raising $15M to $20M At Up To $300M Valuation
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There's been a few walkie-talkie mobile apps that have come out on iOS and Android over the last year or two, but it wasn't until last fall that when one of them had a breakout moment. Voxer suddenly hit it big with young black people in Cleveland and a few other big cities last November. Since then, it has spread to the world, topping app store and gaining a wide range of users -- including venture capitalists on Sand Hill Road here in Silicon Valley. By which I mean, lots of VCs are both using it, and looking at investing in it. Voxer has spent the last couple months working on closing an angel round that it had left open, according to industry sources, while also working on its first venture funding. It's raising $15 million to $20 million at a pre-money valuation of $150 million, says one person. Another counters, saying that the valuation is going to be at least double that.
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There's been a few walkie-talkie mobile apps that have come out on iOS and Android over the last year or two, but it wasn't until last fall that when one of them had a breakout moment. Voxer suddenly hit it big with young black people in Cleveland and a few other big cities last November. Since then, it has spread to the world, topping app store and gaining a wide range of users -- including venture capitalists on Sand Hill Road here in Silicon Valley. By which I mean, lots of VCs are both using it, and looking at investing in it. Voxer has spent the last couple months working on closing an angel round that it had left open, according to industry sources, while also working on its first venture funding. It's raising $15 million to $20 million at a pre-money valuation of $150 million, says one person. Another counters, saying that the valuation is going to be at least double that.
Geolocation’s Potential Heats Up With Geoloqi’s Battery-Saving Tech
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Geoloqi, a name you may know because of the mobile app that provides automatic Foursquare check-ins and geofenced reminders, is today launching its next-generation location platform as an SDK. Although previously available in API format for developers' use, the new iOS and Android SDK makes it even easier for developers to drop in location services into their apps, whether those are consumer-facing apps, apps for government, carriers, or the enterprise.
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Geoloqi, a name you may know because of the mobile app that provides automatic Foursquare check-ins and geofenced reminders, is today launching its next-generation location platform as an SDK. Although previously available in API format for developers' use, the new iOS and Android SDK makes it even easier for developers to drop in location services into their apps, whether those are consumer-facing apps, apps for government, carriers, or the enterprise.
Along With New Look, Apps, Astrid Now Lets You Outsource Tasks To TaskRabbit
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If you're an iPhone user, you may not be as familiar with Astrid, which has turned into one of the most popular "to-do," list-making apps for Android. We first wrote about Astrid when it joined thirteen other startups that composed AngelPad's second batch. Astrid's value proposition was simple: Offer users a clean, easy-to-use interface to enable sharing and collaboration around tasks. Other services have now come along to make this a familiar service, but the goal was for groups (businesses) to be able to assign tasks to each other, and broadcast to the group when those tasks are completed.
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If you're an iPhone user, you may not be as familiar with Astrid, which has turned into one of the most popular "to-do," list-making apps for Android. We first wrote about Astrid when it joined thirteen other startups that composed AngelPad's second batch. Astrid's value proposition was simple: Offer users a clean, easy-to-use interface to enable sharing and collaboration around tasks. Other services have now come along to make this a familiar service, but the goal was for groups (businesses) to be able to assign tasks to each other, and broadcast to the group when those tasks are completed.
Cloud Security: DataLocker Lets You Encrypt Your Sensitive Dropbox Files For Free
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We're all becoming increasingly reliant on consumer cloud services, as cloud storage providers like Dropbox make it easy to share and store files, folders, images, sync between platforms, and more. They make our lives easier, but because they store an enormous amount of potentially sensitive data, there are some inherent risks. While Dropbox is for personal use, it and services like it are increasingly being used by businesses -- another example of the ongoing consumerization of enterprise and IT. That's why virtualization provider AppSense has created DataLocker, a set of mobile and desktop apps for iOS, Windows and Mac that enable users to encrypt sensitive information in their Dropbox accounts for free -- without giving up the convenience of cross-platform syncing.
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We're all becoming increasingly reliant on consumer cloud services, as cloud storage providers like Dropbox make it easy to share and store files, folders, images, sync between platforms, and more. They make our lives easier, but because they store an enormous amount of potentially sensitive data, there are some inherent risks. While Dropbox is for personal use, it and services like it are increasingly being used by businesses -- another example of the ongoing consumerization of enterprise and IT. That's why virtualization provider AppSense has created DataLocker, a set of mobile and desktop apps for iOS, Windows and Mac that enable users to encrypt sensitive information in their Dropbox accounts for free -- without giving up the convenience of cross-platform syncing.
February 09 2012
Remember Netvibes? It’s Finally Acquired By Engineering Giant Dassault Systèmes
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It's been a long and winding road since Tariq Krim created and eventually left Netvibes, but today Netvibes has been acquired by huge French engineering giant Dassault Systèmes for an undisclosed amount. Krim continues to pursue his original dream of organising the social web on Jolicloud.
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It's been a long and winding road since Tariq Krim created and eventually left Netvibes, but today Netvibes has been acquired by huge French engineering giant Dassault Systèmes for an undisclosed amount. Krim continues to pursue his original dream of organising the social web on Jolicloud.
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February 06 2012
WWJD? The CEO Every Healthcare Leader Should Learn From
Innovator's Prescription - New Wave of Disruptive Models in Healthcare
As healthcare goes through massive changes, health system CEOs would be well advised to study what newspaper industry leaders did (or perhaps more appropriately, didn’t do) when faced with a similar situation. In the late 90's, the following dynamics were present: Owning printing presses was a de facto barrier to entry allowing newspapers unfettered dominance. Newspaper companies bought up smaller newspaper chains and took on huge debt. Newspapers were comfortable as oligopoly or monopoly enterprises allowing for slow, plodding decisions. Their IT infrastructure mirrored this with expensive and rigid technology architectures.
Innovator's Prescription - New Wave of Disruptive Models in Healthcare
As healthcare goes through massive changes, health system CEOs would be well advised to study what newspaper industry leaders did (or perhaps more appropriately, didn’t do) when faced with a similar situation. In the late 90's, the following dynamics were present: Owning printing presses was a de facto barrier to entry allowing newspapers unfettered dominance. Newspaper companies bought up smaller newspaper chains and took on huge debt. Newspapers were comfortable as oligopoly or monopoly enterprises allowing for slow, plodding decisions. Their IT infrastructure mirrored this with expensive and rigid technology architectures.
February 05 2012
Keep It Simple, Stupid: The Enterprise Version
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Back in 2009, my colleague MG Siegler wrote a brilliant piece titled 'Keep It Simple, Stupid,' which delved into how having a simple and easy to use product is a key formula for winning in the consumer tech space. A few days ago, Greylock Partner John Lilly echoed MG's thoughts, explaining that simplicity is quite simply very hard to beat. While this doctrine has been applied tonconsumer technology products like Dropbox, Gmail, Twitter and most famously, Apple; reinforcing simplicity in the product thought process is becoming an ever-present part of enterprise technology as well.
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Back in 2009, my colleague MG Siegler wrote a brilliant piece titled 'Keep It Simple, Stupid,' which delved into how having a simple and easy to use product is a key formula for winning in the consumer tech space. A few days ago, Greylock Partner John Lilly echoed MG's thoughts, explaining that simplicity is quite simply very hard to beat. While this doctrine has been applied tonconsumer technology products like Dropbox, Gmail, Twitter and most famously, Apple; reinforcing simplicity in the product thought process is becoming an ever-present part of enterprise technology as well.
Personalized eCommerce Is Already Here, You Just Don’t Recognize It
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Reading Leena Rao’s recent article on Techcrunch about the personalization revolution, you get the sense that the tech world is waiting for a bus that isn’t coming. Rao quotes well-known industry experts and luminaries describing what needs to happen for e-commerce to finally realize the promise of personalized shopping, a future where online retailers predict what you’ll want to buy before you know yourself. Ironically, Rao and her pundits are missing the zooming racecar that’s speeding by them as they wait for the personalization bus to arrive. That racecar is Pinterest and the new breed of startups marking the beginning of what I call the "Curated Web."
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Reading Leena Rao’s recent article on Techcrunch about the personalization revolution, you get the sense that the tech world is waiting for a bus that isn’t coming. Rao quotes well-known industry experts and luminaries describing what needs to happen for e-commerce to finally realize the promise of personalized shopping, a future where online retailers predict what you’ll want to buy before you know yourself. Ironically, Rao and her pundits are missing the zooming racecar that’s speeding by them as they wait for the personalization bus to arrive. That racecar is Pinterest and the new breed of startups marking the beginning of what I call the "Curated Web."
February 04 2012
An Arab Spring For IT
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Change in the air. It’s palpable. Those of us in the technology world are witnessing a transformation: a buyer-led revolution in how information technology is both produced and consumed. Smartphones and tablets are upsetting the PC order; social applications are impinging on traditional “workforce productivity” and communications applications.
Demonstration_in_Al_Bayda
Change in the air. It’s palpable. Those of us in the technology world are witnessing a transformation: a buyer-led revolution in how information technology is both produced and consumed. Smartphones and tablets are upsetting the PC order; social applications are impinging on traditional “workforce productivity” and communications applications.
February 03 2012
Yammer Time: In 2011 “Pretty Much Everything Tripled”
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Yammer grew like crazy last year. How crazy? Product VP Jim Patterson just tweeted out the Yammer 2011 Year in Review infographic below with the comment: "Pretty much everything tripled." Paid seats went from 300,000 to 800,000, total users went from 1.6 million to 4 million (2.5X growth), and employees went from 80 to 250. Also, all told, 200,000 companies are using Yammer, including 85 percent of the Fortune 500 (and TechCrunch).
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Yammer grew like crazy last year. How crazy? Product VP Jim Patterson just tweeted out the Yammer 2011 Year in Review infographic below with the comment: "Pretty much everything tripled." Paid seats went from 300,000 to 800,000, total users went from 1.6 million to 4 million (2.5X growth), and employees went from 80 to 250. Also, all told, 200,000 companies are using Yammer, including 85 percent of the Fortune 500 (and TechCrunch).
February 02 2012
Why It’s Good News HealthIT is So Bad
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I know of no industry where technology is as despised as it is in healthcare. It's telling that it took government money to incentivize healthcare providers to finally do what virtually every other industry has done -- apply information technology to streamline processes. "Established technology is being given a federally funded new lease on life," athenahealth CEO Jonathan Bush said. "Traditional health software now is on Medicare, being kept alive like grandma." Bush dubs this program as the "cash for clunkers" program for health IT leaving no doubt what his opinion is regarding the legacy vendors' solutions.
train-wreck
I know of no industry where technology is as despised as it is in healthcare. It's telling that it took government money to incentivize healthcare providers to finally do what virtually every other industry has done -- apply information technology to streamline processes. "Established technology is being given a federally funded new lease on life," athenahealth CEO Jonathan Bush said. "Traditional health software now is on Medicare, being kept alive like grandma." Bush dubs this program as the "cash for clunkers" program for health IT leaving no doubt what his opinion is regarding the legacy vendors' solutions.
February 01 2012
ShoreTel To Acquire Cloud Communications Company M5 Networks For Up To $146 Million
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IP phone company ShoreTel has today announced that it is beefing up its offerings by acquiring unified communications company M5 Networks in a deal that is valued up to $146 million in cash and stock.
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IP phone company ShoreTel has today announced that it is beefing up its offerings by acquiring unified communications company M5 Networks in a deal that is valued up to $146 million in cash and stock.
January 31 2012
Synacor Files For IPO, Acquires HTML5 Cloud OS Carbyn For $1.1M
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Online content, portal and comprehensive front-end technology solution Synacor filed its amended S-1 today for an IPO looking to raise $75 million. The filing revealed that this month Synacor acquired Carbyn, an HTML5 operating system that lets users put their files, applications and more in the cloud and access them from any device. It paid $1.1 million total for the company, $600,000 up front with $500,000 deliver in April 2013, and it hired 7 Carbyn employees.
Synacor Carbyn IPO
Online content, portal and comprehensive front-end technology solution Synacor filed its amended S-1 today for an IPO looking to raise $75 million. The filing revealed that this month Synacor acquired Carbyn, an HTML5 operating system that lets users put their files, applications and more in the cloud and access them from any device. It paid $1.1 million total for the company, $600,000 up front with $500,000 deliver in April 2013, and it hired 7 Carbyn employees.
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