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PC For Rent – How To Make Money Searching For Extraterrestrial Intelligence

YoungUpstarts

As of December 2017, the GIMPS project had reached an aggregate computing power of approximately 320 TeraFLOPS (320 trillion floating-point operations per second). The aggregate computing power of the project is more than 960 TFLOPS. The majority of the largest known prime numbers are Mersenne primes. million CPUs.

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Putting Twitter’s IPO in Perspective

Agile VC

If this were a math class, I’d just say the proof is evident but if you want some data on Twitter’s 2013 YTD revenue here you go. Well it’s not clear that media businesses, in aggregate, are inherently more valuable than e-commerce or premium services companies in aggregate [see Note 1 below regarding categorization].

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19 Psychological Tactics for Successful Crowdfunding Campaigns

ConversionXL

Most project creators describe their project using aggregate framing. Agrawal, Catalini, and Goldfarb (2013) examined the types of risks that donors encounter in crowdfunding. even selfish humans are more likely to act fairly when in public.” ( Burnham, 2003 , pp. Among their findings, one primary factor was efficacy.

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Evolution of a Founder: Lessons I have learned

om.co

I had been writing GigaOM (the blog) since December 2001, but in 2003, I started working on a piece for Business 2.0 In the early days, my belief was that blogs (or as I called them micro-pubs back in 2002) would grow really fast and it would allow me to aggregate large subsets of audiences around specific niches. STARTING IT UP.

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Denouement

View from Seed

Aggregate VC investment in 2009 hits a low of roughly $20B, a figure last seen in 2003 in the wake of the bursting of the dotcom and telecom bubble and 2001 recession. Facebook goes public in 2012 and Twitter in 2013. We’re only a few months past Sequoia’s famous “R.I.P. Good Times” presentation (Oct 2008).

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Denouement

Agile VC

Aggregate VC investment in 2009 hits a low of roughly $20B, a figure last seen in 2003 in the wake of the bursting of the dotcom and telecom bubble and 2001 recession. Facebook goes public in 2012 and Twitter in 2013. We’re only a few months past Sequoia’s famous “R.I.P. Good Times” presentation (Oct 2008).

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The Series A crunch is hitting now. Have we even noticed?

pandodaily.com

Multiply that by literally a couple thousand, and that’s what 2013 is going to look like in Silicon Valley, and to a lesser degree some other startup ecosystems. Zucker, a veteran news executive, will succeed Jim Walton, who has had the job since 2003. Companies we never really got to know are simply starting to fade away.