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Nerdio lands $117M to build management tools on top of Azure Virtual Desktop

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Recognizing an opportunity for further growth, Vladimirskiy and Nerdio’s co-founder, former Microsoft exec Joseph Landes, decided to spin-off Nerdio as a separate company and sell Adar to a private equity firm in January 2020. Survey data illustrates the dramatic shift.

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Virtual events startups have high hopes for after the pandemic

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Few people thought of virtual events before the pandemic struck, but this format has fulfilled a unique and important need for companies and organizations large and small during the pandemic. But what will virtual events’ value be as more of the world attempts to return to life before COVID-19? Of course they will.”

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Kumospace raises new cash to replace physical offices with virtual ones

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According to ActivTrak, 41% of organizations didn’t have a dedicated remote work policy in place as of May 2020. One survey suggests that nearly half of employees — 46% — find remote work, at least in the early stages, can make it more difficult to maintain professional relationships with key stakeholders.

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Which emerging technologies are enterprise companies getting serious about in 2020?

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Our survey had 211 respondents, 62% of them in North America and 59% at companies with greater than $1 billion in annual revenue.) We asked survey respondents to assess a list of 16 technologies, from advanced analytics to quantum computing, and put each one into one of these four buckets. Virtual reality. AI/machine learning.

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Hottest tech skills to hire for in 2020

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Here are some of the hottest tech skills (a mix of programming languages, tools, and frameworks; in random order) to hire for in 2020, which will help you thrive in the workplace of tomorrow. The Stack Overflow developer survey results show that about 69.7% The same survey reveals that JavaScript is one of the most desired languages.

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7 investors discuss augmented reality and VR startup opportunities in 2020

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Meanwhile, few spaces were frothier in 2016 than virtual reality, but most VCs who gambled on VR following Facebook’s Oculus acquisition failed to strike it rich. Tipatat Chennavasin, The Venture Reality Fund. Jacob Mullins, Shasta Ventures. Gigi Levy-Weiss, NFX. Brayton Williams, Boost VC. Greg Castle, Anorak Ventures.

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Extra Crunch roundup: cohort analysis, YC Demo Day recaps, building your supply chain

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For YC Summer 2021 Demo Day, the accelerator’s fourth virtual gathering, Natasha Mascarenhas, Alex Wilhelm, Devin Coldewey, Lucas Matney and Greg Kumparak selected 14 favorites from the first day of one of the world’s top pitch competitions. Virtual events startups have high hopes for after the pandemic.

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