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Amazon Redshift Too Slow or Crashing? BlazingDB Performs

Austin Startup

Transformations, aggregations and joins at massive scale is where BlazingDB wins! He created the first GPU table joiner and the rest is history. Significant capital has been raised in Peru and throughout Latin America. Our Team is Stellar BlazingDB was founded out of necessity. I am a proud investor and advisor.

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Out of the Crisis #3, Jen Pahlka and Raylene Yung on creating the U.S. Digital Response

Startup Lessons Learned

Jen is the founder and former executive director of Code for America. 44:12) Show-related links Code for America United States Digital Service 18F U.S. Up until January 31, I was running the nonprofit that I founded called Code for America, for ten years. She served as the U.S. 33:59) The value of being useful. (35:20)

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Groupon's S-1: From Zero to Like? Billions in 30 Months ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

They face lots of competition and few barriers to entry so the future growth and profitability can legitimately be questioned, but still… what Andrew Mason and the rest of the team have built in such a short time is truly remarkable.

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Create High-Impact Data Visualizations: Nine Effective Strategies

Occam's Razor

You are going to see my deep bias for simplicity for the rest of this post (or in the 745,540 words written on this blog thus far). Here’s a valuable dataset from the Equal Justice Initiative on Lynchings in America. Beyond the value of the lessons from the visualizations, I encourage you to explore rest of the EJI website.

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Startups are the new MTV – and 15 other thoughts for 2015

Start Up Blog

Just consider this for a moment: 29 of America’s 100 top-paid CEOs collected more in compensation than their corporations paid in income taxes. Expect to see an uprising of startups providing software layers to protect end users and aggregate public data on them so they have awareness of what their digital footprints look like.

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Startups are the new MTV – and 15 other thoughts for 2015

Start Up Blog

Just consider this for a moment: 29 of America’s 100 top-paid CEOs collected more in compensation than their corporations paid in income taxes. Expect to see an uprising of startups providing software layers to protect end users and aggregate public data on them so they have awareness of what their digital footprints look like.

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Episode 3: A Startup Comic Book Company, How to Find a Mentor, and #BigData – The Bcast

Up and Running

Peter: Retailers used to have tons of information on their own users, but not about the rest of the world. Caroline: Small businesses first of all should have a website, even though there’s a statistic out there like 60% of small businesses in America don’t even have a website, which is sort of crazy. Caroline: Right.