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The Big VC Thaw – Why The Market is Moving Again (part 2 of 3)

Both Sides of the Table

In my previous post, The VC Ice Age is Thawing (for now) I wrote about the reasons why the VC market came to a screeching halt in September 2008 and remained largely shut until at least April 2009. Don’t wait for your perfect business development deals to come to fruition that are 6-months away in your pipeline.

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Should You Hire a Programmer or DIY?

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In 2008, we couldn’t find a technical co-founder for Yipit. Your service has to be secure, it has to scale immediately, you need PhD’s to help you develop algorithms and you’re probably applying for a few patents. The tech aspect is mainly writing and reading from a database and you might build on top of an API.

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Should You Hire a Programmer or DIY? | Vinicius Vacanti

viniciusvacanti.com

In 2008, we couldn’t find a technical co-founder for Yipit. Your service has to be secure, it has to scale immediately, you need PhD’s to help you develop algorithms and you’re probably applying for a few patents. The tech aspect is mainly writing and reading from a database and you might build on top of an API.

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

A given customer would have an entity URL that looked like this: customer://1234 Somewhere in your API, you have a way to access data about a given customer. Whichever API you use, URL-based sharding is very easy to understand. Then, whenever you want to have your system find the shard for a given entity, compose this name into a URL.

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Cloud Europe 2017: The Factory is Cranking

Cracking the Code

12 cloud IPOs in the past 2 years: One from Europe SaaS companies are thriving in the public markets, with their aggregated market cap grew 350% since 2011, and 12 cloud companies going public in the past 24 months. These 12 have performed well, with an aggregate $2.6 Our investments in the space have followed suit.

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270+ Tools for Running a Business Online

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25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time

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Between the worse data aggregation method and the much higher amount of work Wesabe made you do, it was far easier to have a good experience on Mint , and that good experience came far more quickly. At the end, I asked myself what are the most critical resources I need to be successful and the answer was partners and developers.