Netsoft Completes 5th Placement at Mimosa Networks

Founded by serial technology entrepreneur Brian Hinman in March, 2012 to develop a suite of products servicing the Wireless Service Providers, Mimosa Networks is achieving breakthrough performance with 802.11ac wireless technology. Mimosa has closed 3 rounds of funding at a very favorable valuation, and recently announced their first products.

Congratulations to Ron Goodall on his role as Vice President of Operations!

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Netsoft Completes 8th Placement at Kumu Networks

Founded in 2012 around patented full-duplex wireless technology, Kumu Networks is developing bleeding-edge wireless products with commensurate bandwidth advantages. Kumu closed Series B financing October 2013 with a new lead investor and Series A investors participating as well.

Netsoft began working with Kumu in 2012 at company inception, when it was just 7 people.

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Netsoft Completes 1st Placement at Perpetuuiti

Perpetuuiti TechnoSoft Services Pvt. Ltd. is a global software product company in Business Resiliency and Service Availability Management. Perpetuuiti is focused on developing Software Products that enable organizational visibility into BCP/ IT investments, ensuring business resiliency in crisis situations that may cause supply chain interruptions, loss of or damage to critical infrastructure. Founded in 2011, and backed by a team of data center software and BCP/ DR focused professionals, Perpetuuiti has quickly established itself as an innovative player in this segment.

Congratulations to Todd Feinroth who accepted an offer with Perpetuuiti to run Global Sales and GM of the Americas.

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Netsoft Completes 4th Placement at Mimosa Networks

Founded by serial technology entrepreneur Brian Hinman in March, 2012 to develop a suite of products servicing the Wireless Service Providers, Mimosa Networks is achieving breakthrough performance with 802.11ac wireless technology. Mimosa has closed 3 rounds of funding at a very favorable valuation.

Congratulations to Cam Burley on his role as Principal RF Engineer!

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VIDEO: Cubicles Were Once Awesome. So What Went Wrong?

June 30, 2014 -- (Bloomberg) -- When the cubicle was invented in 1968 it was actually pretty awesome. Nikhil Saval, author of "Cubed: A Secret History of the Workplace," tells Bloomberg what went wrong with the cubicle, and why we failed to fix it. Video by: Alex Dean, Victoria Blackburn-Daniels. (Source: Bloomberg)

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GoPro Shares Jump 31% in Debut

June 26, 2014 -- (WSJ) -- GoPro Inc.'s stock-market debut showed the promise of consumer-electronics companies but didn't quell skepticism about the video-camera maker's longer-term prospects.

GoPro makes a wearable high-definition video recorder that first appealed to surfers and cyclists looking for ways to record cool tricks. It is now the top-selling camcorder in the...

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VIDEO: How to Survive an Interview Over a Meal

May 30, 2014 -- (Bloomberg) -- Goldie’s Table Matters Founder Deborah Goldstein discusses business dinner etiquette on Bloomberg Television's “Bloomberg Surveillance.”

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Netsoft Completes 7th Placement at Kumu Networks

Founded in 2012 around patented full-duplex wireless technology, Kumu Networks is developing bleeding-edge wireless products with commensurate bandwidth advantages. Kumu closed Series B financing October 2013 with a new lead investor and Series A investors participating as well.

Netsoft began working with Kumu in 2012 at company inception, when it was just 7 people.

Congratulations to Tushar Moorti on his role as Director of Systems Engineering!

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Netsoft Completes 1st, 2nd and 3rd Placements at Mimosa Networks

Founded by serial technology entrepreneur Brian Hinman in March, 2012 to develop a suite of products servicing the Wireless Service Providers, Mimosa Networks is achieving breakthrough performance with 802.11ac wireless technology. Mimosa has closed 3 rounds of funding at a very favorable valuation.

Congratulations to Srinivas Kandala on his role leading the embedded software team as Sr Director, Embedded Engineering!

Congratulations to Frank Spiteri on his role as Sr Mechanical Design Engineer! And

Congratulations to Burt Cyr on his role as Sr Platforms Software Engineer!

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Elite Colleges Don’t Buy Happiness for Graduates

May 7, 2014 -- (WSJ) -- A word to high-school seniors rejected by their first choice: A degree from that shiny, elite college on the hill may not matter nearly as much as you think.

A new Gallup survey of 30,000 college graduates of all ages in all 50 states has found that highly selective schools don’t produce better workers or happier people, but inspiring professors—no matter where they teach—just might.

The poll, undertaken this spring, is part of a growing effort to measure how well colleges do their jobs. This survey adds an interesting twist, because it looked not only at graduates after college; it tried to determine what happens during college that leads to well-being and workplace engagement later in life.

The poll didn’t measure graduates’ earnings. Rather, it was rooted in 30 years of Gallup research that shows that people who feel happy and engaged in their jobs are the most productive. That relatively small group at the top didn’t disproportionately attend the prestigious schools that Americans have long believed provided a golden ticket to success. Instead, they forged meaningful connections with professors or mentors, and made significant investments in long-term academic projects and extracurricular activities.

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VIDEO: What You Need to Know About the GoPro IPO

May 20, 2014 -- (Bloomberg) -- Bloomberg’s Leslie Picker offers background on the business of GoPro as the company files a prospectus for an initial public offering and why the company wants to be known as a media company going forward. She speaks on Bloomberg Television’s “In The Loop.”

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Mimosa Networks Raises $20M To Push Global High-Speed Wireless Networking

May 21, 2014 -- (WSJ) -- Investors are pouring another $20 million into Mimosa Networks Inc., a stealthy Silicon Valley startup whose technology aims to make fiber-speed wireless networks a given around the world, the company told Venture Capital Dispatch.

The investment, which comes from insiders New Enterprise Associates and Oak Investment Partners, takes Mimosa’s total funding to nearly $39 million as Mimosa prepares to launch its first products in mid-June. Valuation is not disclosed.

“We’ve got a 1,000-to-1 mismatch between what we’re supplying [in wireless technology] and what we think the demand will be at the end of the decade. That’s the big backdrop,” said NEA Venture Partner Greg Papadopoulos, a Mimosa board member.

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AT&T Says Software-Based Network Starts to Go Live by June

May 7, 2014 -- (WSJ) -- The telecom carrier, which is replacing its hardware-based network with software, says that within the next month it will offer the first cloud-based products based on the technology, which will allow big corporations to manage and configure services on their own.

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Math and Science Pay, But High Schoolers Care Less

April 23, 2014 -- (WSJ) --  Math and science are the peas and carrots of the jobs market: great for a career future, but resolutely unpopular with the young.

Even amid a relatively weak jobs picture, fewer U.S. high school students are taking up fields of study with proven earnings potential than was the case a decade ago.

That has translated into a chronic shortage of workers schooled in science, technology, engineering or mathematics, according to research released Wednesday.

The STEM Index, developed by U.S. News & World Report and RaytheonRTN +0.81% Co., found the number of American jobs requiring math or science knowledge increased to 16.8 million last year from 12.8 million in 2000.

Yet during the same period, U.S. high-school students’ interest in those subjects declined—and now stands below 2000 levels.

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San Francisco Beating Silicon Valley With Growth in Jobs

March 25, 2014 -- (Bloomberg) -- When J.M. Myers, a software engineer from Maryland, went west, he opted for San Francisco and a job at mobile-advertising startup TapSense -- and not Silicon Valley. He’s far from alone.

San Francisco is outpacing the traditional industry hub to the south in job creation, driving up living costs and igniting a backlash over a widening wealth gap. The city had 57 percent growth in technology jobs from 2010 to 2013; Santa Clara County, home to Apple Inc. (AAPL) and Google Inc. (GOOG), saw job increases of 14 percent, according to state figures.

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Chinese College Graduates Play It Safe and Lose Out

March 26, 2013 -- (WSJ) --  BEIJING—Xie Chaobo figures he has the credentials to land a job at one of China's big state-owned firms. He is a graduate student at Tsinghua University, one of China's best. His field of study is environmental engineering, one of China's priorities. And he is experimenting with new techniques for identifying water pollutants, which should make him a valuable catch.

But he has applied to 30 companies so far and scored just four interviews, none of which has led to a job. Although Mr. Xie's parents are entrepreneurs who have built companies that make glasses, shoes and now water pumps, he has no interest in working at a private startup. Chinese students "have been told since we were children to focus on stability instead of risk," the 24-year-old engineering student says.

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Competing With Silicon Valley for Talent Is Becoming Insanely Expensive

February 17, 2014 -- (Bloomberg) -- Silicon Valley's rising tide may not lift all boats. As other cities around the world try to develop their own tech hubs, most companies outside the Valley will find it difficult to snare top talent with their executive pay packages.

Here's what Beijing, London, Tel Aviv and Tokyo are up against: 22 tech execs in the U.S. each made more than $20 million in total compensation, according to 2013 proxy data compiled by Equilar, a research firm. The numbers include salary, bonus, stock and other payouts.

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The B Word – What Does It Take to Raise a Financing Round at a Billion Dollar Valuation?

"77% of the Billion-dollar Start-ups are Based in California and Primarily in Silicon Valley."

February 7, 2014 (CB Insights) -- On average, unicorns-in-training, take five rounds of financing and over $200M in aggregate financing before hitting the billion dollar valuation threshhold. Among VCs, Sequoia Capital leads the way having invested in 10 companies in the billion-dollar startup club globally.

Raising financing at a billion-dollar plus valuation has gotten a lot more common. With corporations, hedge funds and mutual funds increasingly investing in private tech companies along with VCs, the hunt for unicorns is on in a big way.  As a friendly reminder, most VCs are not very good at identifying unicorns, but that’s a story for another day.

In this analysis, we wanted to look at billion dollar financing valuations and what it takes to get there.

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Bloomberg: GoPro Files for IPO: The Next Big Thing?

February 7, 2014 (Bloomberg) -- Bloomberg senior West Coast correspondent Jon Erlichman reports that GoPro has filed for an IPO initiated by a “confidential” draft registration statement on Bloomberg Television’s “Market Makers.”

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Netsoft Completes 6th Placement at Kumu Networks

Founded in 2012 around patented full-duplex wireless technology, Kumu Networks is developing bleeding-edge wireless products with commensurate bandwidth advantages. Kumu closed Series B financing October 2013 with a new lead investor and Series A investors participating as well.

Netsoft began working with Kumu in 2012 at company inception, when it was just 7 people.

Congratulations to Muzaffer Kal on his role as Sr FPGA/DSP Engineer!

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Netsoft Completes 5th Placement at Kumu Networks

Founded in 2012 around patented full-duplex wireless technology, Kumu Networks is developing bleeding-edge wireless products with commensurate bandwidth advantages. Kumu closed Series B financing October 2013 with a new lead investor and Series A investors participating as well.

Netsoft began working with Kumu in 2012 at company inception, when it was just 7 people.

Congratulations to Rich Tanner on his role as Lab Manager/Sr Technician!

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