Start Up Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

A simple idea for cool startups is to distribute stickers. Not just any crappy old sticker, but one that is awesome in design, and limited in distribution. There has got to be a level of cache. They can’t be bought, but need to be earned – the free prize inside.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 17, 2017

Thrillbox Thrillbox is an immersive media analytics platform that provides distribution tools for content generators, advertising agencies, vendors, and networks. It’s getting warmer here in Austin and that can only mean one thing–summer is right around the corner, and with summer comes summer internships.

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Semantic Social Media Database Artificial Inteligence 48

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

You now run Pilosa, what you describe as “an open source, distributed index designed to help analyze huge datasets at UI latency.” We are also in the process of building a world class management team and a distributed engineering team of the best developers no matter what time zone they reside in. How will it work with Molecula?

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Open Source Startup Caching Database 48

Up and Running

JANUARY 31, 2017

W3 Total Cache. Social networks are now an important channel to distribute website content. Without content distribution, the search engines won’t take your pages seriously. You don’t have to be a search engine professional to make the most of your web content—there are plugins for that. Floating Social Bar.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

From Inside Higher Ed : An erstwhile associate kinesiology professor at California State University at San Bernardino remains on the lam after police raided his home last week and found a pound of methamphetamine and a cache of guns. In such crime organizations, most of the number-crunching falls to the secretary-treasurer, Barker says.

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Southern California Kentucky Caching California 37

ConversionXL

MAY 16, 2016

Marketizator increased the number of servers and added a layer of caching to serve variations (whether that be A/B testing or personalization) faster. and not distributed over any CDN. Vendor Responses. We also got responses and updates from some of the tools after the study was conducted.

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Flash Metrics Caching Conversion 86

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Lower load time by reducing image file sizes, using caching, and using a Content Delivery Network (CDN). If you don’t have enough traffic or lack the resources to run A/B tests, focus on these nine key principles of conversion rate optimization : Speed. Review page speed on Pingdom. Singularity. Stick to one goal and one offer per page.

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B2B Social Media Channel Audience 103

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Top management was trying to coordinate all of the operating details (sales, manufacturing, distribution and marketing,) across all the divisions and the company almost went bankrupt that year when poor planning led to excess inventory (with unsold cars piling up at dealers and the company running out of cash.)

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Silicon Valley United States RSS Customer Development 156

www.starling-software.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Understands the entire programming stack, hardware (CPU + Memory + Cache + Interrupts + microcode), binary code, assembly, static and dynamic linking, compilation, interpretation, JIT compilation, garbage collection, heap, stack, memory addressing. Knowledge of distributed VCS systems. Software Engineering.

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Software Review Technical Review SQL API 108

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 3, 2016

The most frequently accessed product pages and page elements should be cached so that they don’t have to be repeatedly retrieved on each visit. Set those items to be cached, and they are removed from each reload. Load Distribution. How many of your pages use the same header and footer, or ubernav and menu?

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Caching Widget Cloud Open Source 100

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Building a cache of user data in a CRM that’s strong enough to inform demand gen campaigns—what content to produce, where to distribute it—can take years, according to Brandt Bogdanovich of MST Solutions. Create and distribute content to those segments. For some companies, actionable user data is not just dated but nonexistent.

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Demand Vertical Campaign Channel 132

techblog.netflix.com

NOVEMBER 26, 2011

Writes stress a data store all the way to the disks, while read benchmarks may only exercise the in-memory cache. We use these for read intensive workloads to cache more data in memory. distribution plus Netflix specific tooling and instrumentation. 0 Key cache size / save period in seconds: 200000.0/14400

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EC2 Caching Software Review Java 68

Hippoland

AUGUST 20, 2017

Because mobile app distribution has proven to be difficult, legacy companies have largely resorted to focusing on improving their native mobile websites as opposed to distributing their native apps. You’ll see more of your information distributed across multiple sources. But, it wasn’t transformative.

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Business Model Software Silicon Valley Mobile 48

K9 Ventures

AUGUST 12, 2011

The entire storage model of the Network Computer can be summarized in one word: cache! All the storage on your local NC is a cache. The entire local hard disk is nothing but a huge cache. The information is distributed… on the network. If it does, it verifies that it’s copy in the cache is up to date.

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Caching Java .Net Networking 75

K9 Ventures

AUGUST 12, 2011

The entire storage model of the Network Computer can be summarized in one word: cache! All the storage on your local NC is a cache. The entire local hard disk is nothing but a huge cache. The information is distributed… on the network. If it does, it verifies that it’s copy in the cache is up to date.

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Caching Java .Net Networking 73

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

This is true of most web application servers, caches like memcached, and all of the network infrastructure that connects them. For example, you might notice that caching gets a lot easier if you have good metadat about which queries are associated with the same entity. This is a good summary and very useful data layer scaling approach.

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San Francisco Architecture Startup Database 151

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 5, 2008

Three of my favorite: memcached - an in-memory object caching system. MogileFS - "Distributed (meta) file system. How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone How to Usability Test your Site for Free The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the tim. Spray files across cheap disks on your network. Pay less for storage.

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Open Source San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean 107

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Our tests suite takes nine minutes to run (distributed across 30-40 machines). The longer you wait to find out about the problem, the more likely it is to have fallen out of the human-memory cache. The high level of our process is dead simple: Continuously integrate (commit early and often). On commit automatically run all tests.

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Continuous Deployment San Francisco Software Review Lean 123

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Hadoop is open source software for distributed computing. It consists of two main parts – Hadoop distributed file system, a distributed file system with high throughput, and Hadoop MapReduce, a software framework for processing large data sets. BigData), many companies are using a front end cache (e.g.,

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Caching Database Distribution Framework 77

ConversionXL

AUGUST 7, 2019

What this strategy achieves: Adds instant credibility to your content and provides a natural distribution network. Already have a cache of data? This post offers four B2B influencer marketing strategies that move the needle in any industry and for companies of all sizes. Partner with industry experts to co-create content.

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B2B Marketing Social Media B2C 110

ConversionXL

APRIL 14, 2016

Use a caching plugin for WordPress websites or install one at the hosting level; W3 Total Cache works for both. If your site receives high volumes of traffic that are globally distributed, third-party solutions can be a tremendous help. Pingdom provides a graded scale, time, and a list of what to improve.

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Conversion Technical Review Audience PPC 48

VC Cafe

JUNE 24, 2011

Facebook will only allow Credits to be distributed through offers by approved providers once the July 1st deadline passes and all games to switch to Credits as their payment method. The company has raised $2.5 million from private investors.

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United Kingdom Venture Capital Taiwan 107

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Ampex’s first customer was Bing Crosby who wanted to record his radio programs for rebroadcast (and had exclusive distribution rights.) Ampex made the first tape recorders in the U.S ( copied from captured German models ,) and Terman was on its board as well.

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Silicon Valley SBIC San Francisco RSS 125

ConversionXL

MAY 8, 2019

Because blog content typically takes advantage of organic search—it’s a free distribution channel that can help get awareness efforts off the ground. Interviews deliver original content and can kick off distribution. If you don’t have an internal cache of data or a big budget, the third option is your best bet. Blog posts.

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eCommerce Marketing Audience Non-Compete 131

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Unlike traditional FLASH we can put 4 bits of information in a single cell, and we produce memory product in sizes optimized for content distribution, creating the LOWERS cost content mobile Content distribution medium available today. Our unique technology is called OTP (One Time programmable) FLASH.

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Mobile IP SMS Networking 109

VC Cafe

JULY 6, 2010

Our system is managed by a patent-pending combination of distributed, grid and peer to peer technologies along with sophisticated analytic algorithms to do the smart matching beween your media and the device. VC Cafe: Sounds like there’s a lot of caching and data transfer. VC Cafe: So, you’re not worried about distribution?

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Media Management API HTML 84

gigaom.com

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

o and its new YARN functionality that allows for new processing frameworks, but solidified with the spate of projects and products — including Cloudera’s very popular commercial distribution — that now include a SQL query engine or other method for interactive analysis running alongside MapReduce. paidContent. Remember me.

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Artificial Inteligence SQL Database Framework 91

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

The next time you needed to handle that page, you could take advantage of caching for excellent performance. For most of its existence, PHP didnt have a standard package-distribution system or very good module support. This sounds like a good trade-off, but it turned out to be a classic sub-optimization.

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PHP Software Review Ruby San Francisco 166

ConversionXL

JUNE 19, 2019

Debugging tip: look at session distribution report, filter to users with lots of sessions and high repeat sessions, get clues from network, hostname, bounce, browser, geo-IP, resolution. Inline critical resources—use cookies to determine whether to inline/cached. Data enrichment You have to earn data quality. Lazy load images.

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Agile Analytics Algorithm Software Review 90

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Varnish Cache (reverse proxy). free, distributed source code control management system. JS/CSS Compression Using YUI Compressor. mod_perlite (Perl). PHP-FPM (a patch for php4/5 to greatly improve FastCGI SAPI usage). pgbouncer (Lightweight connection pooler for PostgreSQL, from the developers of Skype). YSlow (performance checklist).

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Software Review Technical Review Startup 53