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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

Both Sides of the Table

Since 2006 they have added offices outside of Boston including Menlo Park, Europe, and China. Richard De Silva is based in Menlo Park with three other partners, there and 5 partners in Boston. Richard’s email address is public but it is hard to manage all the inbound cold emails. What gets you interested in a startup? (16:35-19:35).

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

In the old days, the brand manager of a consumer packaged goods product had to spend energy inferring the effectiveness of their television ads through a combination of trailing indicators (like market share) or time-consuming market research. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science?

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Video Hosting Platforms: Which Is Best for Your Business?

ConversionXL

CXL’s own Kyle Brodeur, who manages thousands of videos for CXL Institute courses , likes it for similar reasons: Vimeo has the cheapest cost for storing our videos with the feature sets we require. Boston University used Vidyard to create personalized videos that encouraged people to promote their fundraising event, “Giving Day.”.

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Startup Shootaround: Inside a VC Team Meeting on the Drones Hype

View from Seed

The most prolific type of drone company right now are these consultancy-type businesses that range all the way from two guys who are ex-fighter pilots who love to fly drones and get commissioned to do various things with them up to a large-scale aggregation of drone service providers. DAVID: It’s a good point worth unpacking a bit.

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

For example, Friendster was famously vertically partitioned at one time in its growth curve. Using memcacheds multiget, which allows the fetching of many keys in parallel, I have written code to aggregate all the shard lookups for a given page and prefetch them, reducing the overhead even further. Key-based partitioning. to store it.