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A Checklist For Writing Code

David Teten

Nate Jenkins, co-founder of Authorea (ff Venture Capital company), offers, “Sometimes solving a simpler problem can be a beachhead towards a fully-featured solution. If something is slow to compute but re-used many times, cache it. Don’t code anything until you’re reasonably certain your algorithm works.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. In the last full year where we have data LA attracted $1.5

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Oversi Gets $4.9 million from Carmel, Cisco, Smac and StageOne Ventures

VC Cafe

The Oversi platform offers caching solutions that enable operators to deal with the huge traffic load on their servers while improving the user’s quality of experience (read: get rid of the annoying buffering while watching online TV). million, led by Carmel Ventures together with Cisco(R), smac partners and StageOne Ventures.

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The Customer Development Manifesto: The Startup Death Spiral (part.

Steve Blank

Home Books for Startups Secret History-Bibliography Steve Blank Startup Resources Steve Blank Entries RSS | Comments RSS Categories Air Force (9) Ardent (9) Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan (29) California Coastal Commission (3) Conservation (2) Convergent Technologies (1) Customer Development (98) Customer Development Manifesto (..)

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Varnish Cache (reverse proxy). Boilerplate Venture Funding Documents. National Venture Capital Association â?? Raising Venture Capital. Venture Hacks equity section. About VC Cafe. Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013).

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Let's Fire Our Customers

Steve Blank

Let’s Fire Our Customers « Steve Blank steveblank.com/2009/09/24/lets-fire-our-customers – view page – cached + Customer Development Manifesto: The Path of Warriors and Winners (part 5) + Can You Trust Any VC’s Under 40?

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Ardent 3: Supercomputer Porn

Steve Blank

Ardent 3: Supercomputer Porn « Steve Blank steveblank.com/2009/10/12/ardent-3-supercomputer-porn – view page – cached + Customer Development Manifesto: The Path of Warriors and Winners (part 5) + Can You Trust Any VC’s Under 40?