(Founder of watches) Napkin Labs: Should startups pitch close to venture capital?

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Riley Gibson — CEO and co-founder of the Boulder-based napkin Labs, a startup that helps companies manage and involve their Facebook fans and twitter followers. Napkin Labs launched an updated version of the service today (read, napkin Labs allows brands to better understand their customers (and turn them into colleagues) to launch Gibson flew to New York to get advice on building your business during working hours with a hunch co-founder Chris founder Dixon and first round capital managing partner Josh Kopelman.

Based in Colorado, Gibson alleged that his company may be at a disadvantage, because it is not near large sources of venture capital. He wondered if the move will help. Kopelman don't think and react, saying, "I'm not sure it makes sense to go to be near VC ... I think you tend to move if you find that you're starved for talent, if you can't hire to fill positions at the right level. We financed companies throughout the country. "

Dixon chime in with a tongue-in-cheek response that is often better to abandon sources of venture capital.

After an exchange of Gibson asked Dixon and Kopelman on raising money. The question is the napkin Labs to try to reach the defined indicators to make money, or he doesn't worry about benchmarks and just go for it? Dixon and Kopelman take a similar position, with Kopelman, stating "probably makes sense to have just a handful of conversations, testing the appetite and the reaction of investors." he pointed out that you don't turn, fund-raising and shuts down, but rather is an ongoing process to attract sponsors.

Make sure to watch all the videos for additional ideas, along with previous episodes, the founder of the clock with a picture of Dispatch.io, Schedit and profitably.

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Acquia Drupal expands product suite with purchases Cyrve, growing venture solutions

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Acquia, a commercial open source software company that provides products, services and technical support for Drupal social publishing system, expanding its product portfolio with the acquisition of Cyrve, Drupal migration service providers and growing venture solutions provider of Drupal.

Conditions for the acquisition were not disclosed.

Acquia today introduces transaction Acquia migration service and security service of Acquia for Drupal site owners of the enterprise.

The first includes a set of software modules and best practices to help organizations migrate content from social software systems such as WordPress or SharePoint and Office obsolete Drupal Web content.

For more perspective on the acquisition of Cyrve, Moshe Weitzman check co-founder blog.

The security service of Acquia practice includes tools and services for the Drupal site security assessments and implement security policies based on best practices.

Acquia, which was co-founded by Dries Buytaert, original creator and project lead of Drupal, an open source project, recently raised $ 15 million planned $ 20 million shares of the company's total financing round, more than $ 38 million.

Acquia supporters include North Bridge venture partners, Sigma partners, Tenaya capital, and O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures.

Acquia is a privately held, rapidly growing company that supports enterprises that use free open-source content-management system and Drupal. Co-founder of the creator of Drupal in 2007, Acquia provides customers with software ...

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