Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

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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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

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. Pandora begs Congress to lower Internet music licensing rates. Syria shuts down Internet in attempt to quell uprising.

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Mucker Lab

JULY 21, 2016

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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www.subelsky.com

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

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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VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2010

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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David Teten

MARCH 2, 2013

Some big famous old funds share no data whatsoever and are extremely good at eradicating the history of their failures from the internet (leading me to suspect they aren’t doing quite so well as they would like the world to believe). The worst-performing funds fall out of the data altogether. This is a difficult question to study.”.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Crowdsourcing, Networking & Community Wild Apricot – Online tools for clubs, associations, and communities that include email newsletters, blogs, discussion forums, a member database and more. HubSpot – HubSpot is an Internet marketing suite that integrates with your website to track your online marketing efforts.

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