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boldstart 2021 recap & what’s ?? in enterprise 2022

BeyondVC

1/ We started @boldstartvc in 2010 w/ $1m. We are truly to our founders, limited partners, co-investors, and friends for another year of growth and learning. Today, we are up to announce boldstart v + opportunities ii, $230m to continue backing Developer First + SaaS founders from Day 1 to Scale.

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What is Drupal? or, My retraining in Software Development

Scalable Startup

The So Cal engineering gap? Drupal has a worldwide engine of real software discipline. The world has changed – software development, app dev, and software engineering are taking over the center of the conversation, and Drupal/PHP is taking over the lead. are built on Drupal. Big boy applications. What is Drupal?

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Building Competency in Semantic Web Technology

semanticuniverse.com

Many database engineers have gone so far as to invent RDF in one form or another. For these engineers, the RDF standard, and out-of-the-box RDF databases, allow them to buy this part of their solution rather than build it. Relational databases have SQL. Nevertheless, there is a common "aha!"

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Min.us Wins Babson Student Business Of The Year Award

Campus Entrepreneurship

Formed in fall 2010, Min.us His work was crucial in building Microsoft SQL Server 2000. He is currently serving as principal engineer at Amazon. Established by John Xie ’11and Carl Hu, Min.us is truly a universal sharing platform in the cloud allowing users to share anywhere, anytime using any devices available to them.

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

If youre of the type of organization that doesnt use db access objects directly, but simply passes SQL statements through a central API, you can try this: consider the entity identifier as part of the statement itself. Nearly every SQL query I see has a join. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0,

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

You can measure this yourself: go to any list of startups, maybe look at YCombinator’s recent graduate class , or Scoble’s list of picks for 2010 , or Sequoia’s list of seed companies — or go find a list you like better. If someone comes to you with Ruby on Rails experience, do you assume they are ignorant of SQL?

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Technology stack choice for startups

kenegozi.com

Specifically, MySpace were driven by bad business decisions (like using a 3rd party package for its core functionality - the social engine), and bad management and leadership (it is owned by an old-media corporation, which is a firm believer in pre-web2.0 blog-engine(18). Oct, 2010 (4). Sep, 2010 (7). Aug, 2010 (3).