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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

Both Sides of the Table

In the late 90’s he saw the internet boom and helped start IronPlanet.com, a construction equipment marketplace that is nearing an IPO. At the time consumer internet venture capital was still suffering from the collapse of the Tech Bubble. In 2003 one of their first investments was Qiigo, Mike Yavondite’s company. 49:35-51:30).

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

More common is to use a one-way hashing algorithm to map the data to be accessed to one of the shards that store it. Using memcacheds multiget, which allows the fetching of many keys in parallel, I have written code to aggregate all the shard lookups for a given page and prefetch them, reducing the overhead even further.

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Special: 72 Israeli Companies Exhibit at the 2010 Mobile World Congress

VC Cafe

The 72 Israeli companies participating in the 2010 Mobile World Congress: Aerotel Medical Systems – a world leading manufacturer of modular, home and mobile telecare and telemedicine solutions designed to transfer essential data over the telephone, mobile phone and the Internet. A turnkey solution based on a fully telco-grade platform.

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