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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

Flexible VC creates early liquidity which can be either reinvested or distributed to LPs. Zack Mueller, Attorney, Ireland Stapleton Pryor & Pascoe, PC , points that almost “no one, from LPs to entrepreneurs to attorneys, has much experience with these instruments. Early liquidity. Equity VC is a “get rich slow” business.

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24 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

From a personal perspective, this presented a compelling engineering challenge. Meanwhile, I was doing a great job creating content for my website and ranking in the search engines – so good a job, that people wanted to hire me to handle their content and SEO. So I thought, why not apply the same business model in Ireland?

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Branching out: Why you shouldn’t limit your startup to just one location

The Next Web

While I can’t say this is totally representative of technology startups in general, I do think geographically distributed footprints are rapidly becoming the norm. The team opened up a second office for US sales and support in Plano, TX, while the engineering team and CEO stayed in Ireland. Take FieldAware , for example.

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

techblog.netflix.com

This team is currently looking for an additional engineer. distribution plus Netflix specific tooling and instrumentation. Netflix is currently testing and setting up global Cassandra clusters to support expansion into the UK and Ireland using the AWS Europe region located in Ireland.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter – April 2012 Edition

VC Cafe

SWX: ORIDN) an Israeli manufacturer of capnography respiratory monitors and modules was bought by Ireland’s Covidienplc.(NYSE: The center will serve as a platform for the company’s engineers to set up complete IT ground works for their clients. Advertising management and distribution platform company Digital Generation Inc. (DG)

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