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1M/1M Strategy Roundtable: Bootstrapping Comes in Many Flavors

ReadWriteStart

At today's roundtable, we had some very interesting discussions on creative bootstrapping. Justin is looking for a more efficient customer acquisition model, and my suggestion to him was to look into using distributors, instead of trying to do all the development and then also all the distribution himself. D-Logic Inc.

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Smart Contracts on Bitcoin

Version One Ventures

This model of building layered protocols like Lightning on top of Bitcoin has always intuitively made sense to me and appears most analogous to what played out in the first Internet wave (ala TCP/IP). . pioneers a novel consensus mechanism, Proof Transfer (PoX), which uses bitcoin to bootstrap to the security of a new chain.

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What Big Companies Look For When Buying Your Startup

The Startup Magazine

IP & Technology. It’s important that you know the value of your IP and position yourself for a good startup exit. If you have real IP, patents, and trademarks, your startup is going to be worth a lot more. Distribution & Customers. Sometimes they sue instead. Or push regulations. Others will buy you.

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Term-sheets and Valuations: Thinking about Negotiations - Startups.

Tim Keane

A liquidation preference means that the investors receive their investment back (plus dividends) prior to a distribution of the proceeds to stockholders. The investor may also ask for a participation in which the investors receive some additional multiple of their investment prior to distribution of proceeds to stockholders.

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Benchmarking Cassandra Scalability on AWS - Over a million writes per second

techblog.netflix.com

distribution plus Netflix specific tooling and instrumentation. If an instance dies for any reason, the ASG automatically creates a replacement instance and the Netflix tooling manages bootstrap replacement of that node in the Cassandra cluster. All instances are created using the EC2 auto-scaler feature.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Design/Front End: Twitter Bootstrap : Include this in your website, and you are half finished. IP Location Tools. free, distributed source code control management system. Lodestone Innovation Partners (IP) Ltd are spin-out specialists. “My IP” – produced by the UK Intellectual Property Office.