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Smooth-Stone Changes Name to Calxeda; Adds Hires

Austin Startup

The new name, Calxeda , pronounced “Cal-zeh-dah,” is a derivative of the Latin for “Smooth-Stone.” He was previously Senior Vice President, responsible for product lines and manufacturing operations, at SigmaTel through its 2003 IPO and then acquisition by Freescale. Naval Nuclear Power Program.

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For Those Recently Laid Off From Google, Leaving Your Job Doesn’t Mean Losing Your Identity.

Hunter Walker

Google was about 1,000 people when I started in 2003, which means last week’s layoffs were more than an order of magnitude larger than the entire company I’d originally joined. Originally Published June, 2013 [and lightly edited/updated] hunter@google.com: From 2003–2013, it was a pretty powerful email address for me.

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You Are Not Your LDAP: Why Leaving Your Job Doesn’t Mean Losing Your Identity

Hunter Walker

hunter@google.com: From 2003-2013, it was a pretty powerful email address for me. I was the first “Hunter” to work at Google, so I got the six-letter name (the second Hunter went for retnuh@ — “hunter” backwards. Obviously he’s an engineer).

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The Rise of the Secondary Market for Emerging Growth Equities– Necessary But Insufficient

Pascal's View

2000: Regulation FD was passed to create a “level playing field”, reacting against whisper numbers, favored research analysts, and the “hedge fund information advantage”—all in the name of giving everyone simultaneous access to the same corporate disclosures—which absolutely did not happen. cents or 6.25 cents or 6.25

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Texas Startup Manifesto 2.0

Austin Startup

These names aren’t the end of the story?—?they I expect to see more announcements of big name people and companies moving to Texas every month in 2021. With science and engineering breakthroughs ingrained in the fabric of Houston’s economy, the region has become a thriving hub of digital technology talent. Joe Lonsdale.

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If, Why, and How Founders Should Hire a “Professional” CEO

Reid Hoffman

In another study of 212 startups , Wasserman found that it was rare for Founder-CEOs to run their companies in the long term; less than half were still CEO after 3 years, and less than a quarter of the CEOs of the companies that reached an IPO were Founder-CEOs. Dick wasn’t named CEO until 2010, four years after the company’s official start.

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

Imagine you want to store data about customers, each of whom has "last name" field in your database. The problem should be familiar to anyone who plays Scrabble: not all letter are equally likely to be used as the first letter of someones name. Give each entity a name. For example, consider this simple scheme.