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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

Data storage is becoming a specialized function, delegated most often to relational databases. If you are storing all of your data in a relational database, and the load on that database exceeds its capacity, there is no automatic solution that allows you to simply add more hardware and scale up.

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New San Diego VC Firm Emerges as ‘The Moneyball of Venture Capital’ | Xconomy

www.xconomy.com

Coats says the VC firm spent more than six years and invested millions of dollars to compile a database of key variables from more than 60,000 venture financing deals covering roughly 98 percent of all U.S. venture investments since 1987. Raising the firm’s initial $165 million was a three-year overnight success,” Coats says.

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Portfolio POV: What’s Trending on Everipedia?

Mucker Lab

Here, the “encyclopedia of everything” site Everipedia uncovers the top five trending pages of its site from the past week, revealing the unique value of it’s real-time knowledge database of… literally everything. Here at Everipedia, we believe that anything or anyone should be able to have a page!

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Lean startup tools for Rails apps

www.subelsky.com

This keeps us from having to hit our database too much. They measure average responsiveness and compute an aggregate statistic called Apdex which can be a good indicator of site health (at minimum, any significant changes to Apdex should be investigated, and they will email you alerts about such changes).

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BizMe2 is Looking to Disrupt Conferences with Turnkey Solution (Interview)

VC Cafe

PeerTV was linux on DSP, which aggregated content from the Internet like Boxee and BeeTV. Long story short, I ended up spending a year and a half in China from 2008 to 2010 and now I’m hard at work with BizMe2. All the peripheral services are profitable, but there was no place that aggregated everything under one roof.

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

pandodaily.com

But the angels who’ve staked their funds on spreading bits of money all over the Valley are increasingly anxious that only 20 percent of their deals — in aggregate — will get the chance to keep going. They don’t have to worry. That’s fine if you have a home run in that 20 percent. Source GigaOM ]. -

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High Returns On A Small Fund Challenge Low Returns On A Big Fund

David Teten

The first is that the ThomsonOne database shows capital weighted average returns consistently beating simple average returns for vintage years 1980-2008, implying that larger funds do better than smaller funds. Tom draws on two metrics to demonstrate that larger funds are, in fact, more likely to be top performers.

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