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Menlo Ventures Launches $20 Million Early Stage/Talent Fund
Shervin Pershevar announced on stage at the AOL TechCrunch Disrupt 2011 conference that he and Menlo Ventures has started a $20 million fund. The fund will be called the Menlo Talent Fund. Shervin and his team at Menlo Ventures will invest $200,000 in early stage startups. According to the news Menlo will turn around a ...
Freestyle Capital Exploding on The Scene Closes $27m Fund, More Exits Coming
Two respected tech entrepreneurs Josh Felser and Dave Samuel officially announced their early-stage VC firm Freestyle Capital. Although Dan Primack of Fortune Term Sheet blog reported that Freestyle’s fund been public for sometime, it appears the Freestyle team wanted to announce exclusively at the Techcrunch event. Freestyle’s two founders are entrepreneurs and have been together ...
SiliconANGLE/Wikibon #1 in Real Time Original Content at VMworld 2011
Something hit me today when I was watching the Techcrunch implosion and talking to LinkedIn trying to get SiliconANGLE in their daily news paper feed. SiliconANGLE is #1 in original content at tech events we cover, and is rising fast in the original content tech media business. So I wanted to share with Dan Ross ...
Will VMware’s New Cloud Plans Cripple OpenStack?
In the new era of where overnight the wrong strategy decision can sink a company (even established legendary ones), cloud platform and developer decisions are most important. VMware and others are moving fast in announcing and delivering real cloud platforms, products, and services. Since its’ founding OpenStack has gotten lots of attention from industry companies ...
Announcing SiliconANGLE.tv VMworld Live #theCUBE Schedule – 8 hrs/day x 4 days of Live Video Coverage of #VMworld 2011
I am excited to share with you the full schedule for our live video program at VMworld 2011 where we will be on the scene with blanket broadcast coverage. SiliconANGLE.tv Productions with VMware, SiliconANGLE.com, and Wikibon.org bring to you an unprecedented and comprehensive 4 days of live in-depth coverage from VMWorld Live via #theCUBE – ...
End of An Era: Steve Jobs Resigns As Apple CEO – Tim Cook Steps in
Steve Jobs and Apple computer announced today that he is stepping down as CEO of Apple Computer. Here is Steve Jobs’ personal letter to his fans and friends. Apple Computer, the company Jobs with longtime friend Steve Wozniak changed the world of personal computing forever, laying the groundwork for Apple to become the innovative leader ...
Steve Jobs Quits As Apple CEO – The Steve Jobs Resignation Letter
Steve Jobs stepped down as Apple CEO on Wednesday. Here is his resignation letter. To the Apple Board of Directors and the Apple Community: I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO, I would be the first to let you ...
Google Android Hopes For Better Products – Oh Yeah We Have Nukes Too
Google announcing the acquisition of Motorola Mobilty was fun to watch. We covered the news here and here. Simply put: Google needs help for their Android position – help to the tune of $12 billion. They need to get their end product to be of consistently high quality, position for new markets, and have patents ...
FlashSoft – Storage is Sexy But Cache Is King
SiliconANGLE’s Kristen Nicole covered the launch of FlashSoft, a Sunnyvale California startup. At the Flash Memory Summit in Santa Clara I sat down with the FlashSoft founders Ted Sanford and Serge Shats to talk about their business and traction. FlashSoft has a bright future as as rising startup. FlashSoft has three things going for them: 1) ...
OpenSource News: Hortonworks COO Rob Bearden Joins Gluster Board of Directors
Gluster, a startup that provides scale-out, open source storage solutions, announced that open source leader Rob Bearden has joined the company’s board of directors. According to the Gluster’s press release, Bearden joins to support Gluster’s continued growth and offer guidance to help further develop its open source community. The goal of the appointment is for ...