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5 Things You Need to Do to Put Your First Funding Round to Best Use
This post originally appeared on VentureBeat
There was a time when investors would rush startups to market, but a shift has taken place during the past 20 years where the pace has slowed a bit. Now I find myself increasingly advising entrepreneurs to avoid putting a product to market before it is truly ready.… Read more …
Revving The Innovation Engine: Trends to Watch for at Structure

This post originally appeared on GigaOM.
Click here to view the livestream of Structure 2012. Matt Howard will serve as a judge on the LaunchPad panel today at 5:00 p.m.
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GigaOM’s Structure event this week reminds me of the well-documented relationship between economic crises and technological innovation: Hard times bring out the best in entrepreneurs, precipitating a creative destruction that resets the technology infrastructure and transforms business.… Read more …
Pertino – Networking Reinvented
NVP has a legacy in identifying strong infrastructure companies. Over the years, our investments in Airespace, Spinnaker, Virtela, Extreme Networks, Cerent, Redback, Blue Jeans Network and others, have helped create strong businesses with lasting power. We’ve also been a part of ground breaking platform, hosted, subscription and cloud pioneers—including investing in the first hosted application service, Corio (acquired by IBM), making an early venture investment in Rackspace (NYSE: RAX) (and continuing to serve on the board today), serving as an early investor in Qumranet (KVM) (acquired by Red Hat), and founding Verio (acquired by NTT), one of the largest Internet services companies serving the small and medium-size business (SMB) market.… Read more …
Five Factors Accelerating Hadoop’s Mainstream Adoption in The Next 18 Months


One of the things I love most about the software industry is the way new technologies can materialize from unlikely places and get applied in unexpected ways. Hadoop is a great example of this. Conceived by the open source community, Google, Yahoo and others, this programming framework has emerged as a promising solution to the big data problem.… Read more …

