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Identifying the Signs of Scale in Ecommerce Startups
BeachMint had exactly what ScaleVP is looking for: great team and trends
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Portfolio
Sharon Wienbar
Trends
Choose Your Web House Wisely
Maciej Ceglowski compares the new world of cloud platforms to the convenience of living in a dorm room or a monastery.
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Trends
Andy Vitus
Trends
Mining the Gap - DST and the IPO Gap
The time to buy is when everyone else is selling. The dearth of venture backed IPO's in the last decade, with almost none in 2009...
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Trends
Rory O'Driscoll
Go To Market
Trends
GitHub: The New Locus of Software Development
By completely dominating the landscape for open-source software, GitHub fast became the default code repository for most developers.
Article
Andy Vitus
Go To Market
Trends
How Zynga and Netflix Use the Cloud
Two internet success stories have adopted different cloud strategies: Zynga owns the base and rents the spike while Netflix...
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Andy Vitus
Trends
Understanding Platform-as-a-Service
Platforms-as-a-Service have caught the imagination of developers by abstracting away repetitive middleware configuration.
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Trends
Andy Vitus
Trends
Outsourcing the Web Stack
Just as the arrival of open-source blogging platforms eliminated the intervening steps between writers and audiences, so the new breed...
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Trends
Andy Vitus
Trends
Scooping the Big Pot - Venture Capital Since 2007
When Facebook goes public, the Russian venture capital firm DST, will be one of the largest investors in the most significant technology...
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Trends
Rory O'Driscoll
Trends
Scale Venture Partners Promotes Stacey Curry Bishop To Managing Director As Firm Shifts Full Focus To Technology Investing
Scale Venture Partners (ScaleVP) today announced the promotion of Stacey Curry Bishop to Managing Director...
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Trends
Kate Mitchell
Portfolio
A good day and a bad day…
I am thrilled that we announced Stacey Bishop's promotion to Managing Director today.
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Portfolio
Kate Mitchell
Go To Market
What's a Subscriber Worth?
When we looked at BeachMint, we wanted to compare it's customer economics to other subscription service...
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Go To Market
Sharon Wienbar
Trends
The Economics of the Consumer Cloud
Facebook isn't often cited as a cloud computing company since the Social moniker has proven to be stickier.
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