Every tech CEO and founder dreams of building a company founded on principles partially informed by childhood readings of Dumas: All for one, one for all — and, by the way, let's change the world. This team-focused, ideal-driven mantra flies in the face of everything corporate culture stands for, and that's exactly how storybook Silicon Valley/Silicon Alley like it. If… Read MoreSource: TechCrunch
Startups are re-imagining daily objects and inventing new devices. Supported by maker spaces incubators and accelerators, a fraction of this explosion of startups moves on to later stage financing. Investment in IOT startups is likely to hit a record height of $2B this year according to CBInsights.
Enormous tech M&A deals have been announced recently: EMC/Dell, WDC/SanDisk, Lam-Research/KLC-Tencor. These follow a very busy year of large tech M&A, with Avago/Broadcom, Nokia/Alcatel-Lucent and Intel/Altera. This year is shaping up to be a record one for M&A activity across all industries. However, with the large number of multi-billion dollar mergers, there is a nagging…