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Reduce Your Server Response Time for Happy Users, Higher Rankings

ConversionXL

Ultimately, there are dozens of potential factors that may slow down the response of your server: slow application logic, slow database queries, slow routing, frameworks, libraries, resource CPU starvation, or memory starvation. Slow database queries : These occur when your database queries aren’t firing efficiently.

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Investing in Downturns

VC Adventure

First, the overall trends, which show both a steady increase of returns post the 2000 bubble and show the specific increases post 9/11 and post the 2008 market crash. Marketing expenses are lower and customer acquisition costs typically are reduced.

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This Week in VC with Om Malik & Paul Jozefak

Both Sides of the Table

-Structured data asset creation works in on demand in real-time across multiple data sets Including web, e-mail, internal databases, documents, and media. Founded in 2000 in New Brunswick, NJ. Potentially limits acquisition opportunities for independent ad networks. Competitors: InformationBuilders , DataWatch. 406 Ventures.

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Five reasons why the job space is a bad neighborhood

This is going to be BIG.

If there’s a jobs startup within 2000 miles of NYC, I will see it. After a recent talent acquisition in the mobile space, a friend of mine said, “That’s what you get for building in a good neighborhood.” I’m sure… but if you’re looking to exit into a market where the players are flush with acquisitive cash, this isn’t it.

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: TripAdvisor

Seeing Both Sides

Founded in 2000 by Stephen Kaufer and Langley Steinert, Boston-based TripAdvisor is a travel website that provides reviews and other information for consumers about travel destinations around the world. Big Data meets travel…in 2000. Magical, really. TripAdvisor’s History: Two Big Pivots. TripAdvisor’s Future.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter March 2011 Edition

VC Cafe

Provigent, which was founded in 2000, raised $55 million from international and Israeli venture capital firms. Provigent is Broadcom’s eighth acquisition in Israel, and brings the value of its acquisitions here to $1 billion. Broadcom, which has a market cap of $21.7

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How to create a profitable Freemium startup (spreadsheet model included!)

andrewchenblog.com

To become profitable using a freemium business model, this simple equation must hold true: Lifetime value > Cost per acquisition + Cost of service (paying & free) Said in plain english, the lifetime value of your paying customers needs to be greater than the cost it took to acquire them, plus, the cost servicing all users (free or paying).

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