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Does Your VC have an Investment Thesis, or a Hypothesis?

David Teten

125 theses so far submitted by investors into the OpenVC database. “Europe” means a handful of countries, for instance, France, UK, and Germany. Foundry Group, investing primarily in “ Software and Internet ”, follows six major themes, e.g., Human Computer Interaction (HCI) or Distribution.

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

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What is perhaps different from other regions is that we have large indigenous aerospace industry and a big high-tech import/export trade as opposed to a lot of software companies. But our best Internet software engineers have historically been exported on a net basis to the Bay Area. They estimate that high-tech work contributes $108.3

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

Both Sides of the Table

Before you think I was a complete nerd, in addition to making money selling software, which I did at 15, 16 years old, I also made money throwing keg parties. I started as a programmer, and then a database designer, and then a project manager, and I led conversion teams. I had someone willing to offer me a job in France.

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

Data storage is becoming a specialized function, delegated most often to relational databases. If you are storing all of your data in a relational database, and the load on that database exceeds its capacity, there is no automatic solution that allows you to simply add more hardware and scale up.

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Pick the Perfect Name for Your Startup

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Frances McInnis is a journalist and crossword enthusiast based in New York City. 2) Check the competition in the TESS gov't database for trademarks/service marks - www.uspto.gov/ebc/tess/index.html ; again are they i same industry or different (do this for taglines too). I have a couple of points and resources to add.

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Lessons Learned: Five Whys

Startup Lessons Learned

Best of luck, Your Software." (OK, I picked up on the 5 whys from Joel on Software earlier this year. Wish I could figure out how to apply it to the average data warehousing project which has a single shareed database right at the heart of the entire solution. OK, thats not exactly what it said. Good stuff. Love the discussion.

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