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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

Venture Capitalists on your board developed the expertise to get your firm public as soon as possible using whatever it took including hype, spin, expand, and grab market share because the sooner you got your billion dollar market cap, the sooner the VC firm could sell their shares and distribute their profits.

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

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. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Eric, I stop by regularly!

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

Tony P great, though meebo’s place as a “successful&# start up is still open to debate – from consumer IM aggregator to white label IM, still not making big $$. also, just to clarify, the first idea we worked on that we called “meebo&# back in 2003 was my idea. This is the blog post I needed to read.