This is the fifth in a five-part series called “No VC,” which highlights startups that have succeeded without venture capital, the lifeblood of Silicon Valley. Gabe Rivera often hears from Silicon Valley’s elite, who are eager to invest in his startup Techmeme, the...
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Founder Gabe Rivera said he would 'hate to see Techmeme wither or die inside a bigger company.'
No VC: Why Techmeme’s Gabe Rivera Resists Investors
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Former McAfee CEO Dave DeWalt is taking the helm of FireEye, which may go public next year.
Former McAfee Chief DeWalt Named FireEye CEO, Aims for 2013 IPO
Dave DeWalt, the former chief executive officer of antivirus software maker McAfee, has taken the top job at security startup FireEye and plans an initial public offering in the first half of next year. DeWalt, 48, left McAfee in July 2011 after Intel...
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Thomas Isakovich is taking an entirely different approach to building his second storage company.
No VC: Nimbus Takes ’21st Century Approach’ to Building Business
This is the second in a five-part series called “No VC,” which highlights startups that have succeeded without venture capital, the lifeblood of Silicon Valley. Thomas Isakovich started his first storage computing company, TrueSAN Networks, when he was 19. It...
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FreshBooks says it has paying users of its Web-based accounting software in 120 countries.
No VC: FreshBooks CEO Sees Risk Capital as Too Risky
This is the first in a five-part series called “No VC,” which highlights startups that have succeeded without venture capital, the lifeblood of Silicon Valley. Mike McDerment was shacked up in his parents’ basement in Toronto when the first venture...
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Startups that choose to go without venture funding can control their own destiny and gain a real appreciation of money.
No VC: How 5 Startups Skirted Tech’s Financiers
Since the 1960s, venture capitalists have bankrolled Silicon Valley, financing startups that would go on to become the world’s most successful technology companies, including Apple, Cisco and Google. The money hasn’t stopped flowing. Over the past decade, venture firms poured...
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Thomas Foley's next act is a new company called CapRally that is backed by venture capitalist Tim Draper.
Entrepreneur Tries Second Act After Secondary Market Fizzles
When Thomas Foley started Xpert Financial in 2009, he had a simple thesis: Going public was too costly for most companies, and the private fundraising process was overly opaque. So he created an electronic exchange for private companies to raise...
Read more »Next Up for Microsoft’s Expanding Research Labs: Rio de Janeiro
With research labs in China, India and Egypt, Microsoft is adding another location to its growing list of emerging markets: Brazil. The world’s biggest software maker is investing $100 million in Latin America’s largest economy, a move that will give Microsoft...
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SugarCRM Chief Executive Officer Larry Augustin took another open-source company, VA Linux, public in 1999.
Salesforce.com Competitor SugarCRM May Shoot for IPO in 2013
SugarCRM, which provides customer management software that competes with Salesforce.com and Oracle, may try to ride the wave of enterprise computing IPOs and go public as soon as next year, Chief Executive Officer Larry Augustin said. “Our goal is to...
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More than 753,000 students worldwide have signed up for Udacity since January.
Udacity Raises $15 Million as Money Pours into Online Education
Udacity, the digital university co-founded by artificial intelligence and robotics pioneer Sebastian Thrun, has raised $15 million, joining a crop of online education startups to attract venture capital this year. The financing was led by Andreessen Horowitz and included...
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Citrix shares have more than tripled since the end of 2003, compared with the 57 percent gain for the Nasdaq Composite Index.
The Man Behind the M&A Machine at Citrix Systems: Mike Cristinziano
Sixteen years ago, as an equity analyst at Needham & Co., Mike Cristinziano was one of the first on Wall Street to recommend buying shares of Citrix Systems, following the software maker’s IPO the previous year. Some $13 billion in...
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