Today, I’m pleased to announce that Localmind has been acquired by Airbnb. See Techcrunch’s story and Airbnb’s blog post for more info. Localmind was Year One Labs’ first investment, and it’s our first exit as well. It’s a fantastic day for the team: Lenny Rachitsky, Beau Haugh and Nelson Gauthier. MORE >>

I don’t think I’m breaking new ground by saying that book publishing is going through a rapid transformation. I’ve learned a lot about traditional publishing after working with Wiley for the past few years on Do More Faster , Venture Deals , Startup Communities , and Startup Life. SPECIAL OFFER:  Thanks to BookShout! MORE >>

Encourage failure, says serial entrepreneur Kim Kovacs. That's how you succeed. What's one of the most important stepping stones to start-up success? Failure, says one prominent start-up CEO. In an 8-minute video excerpt from her talk at UC Santa Barbara, Kovacs describes why "failure is my favorite word at my company now." Her message? MORE >>

Here at Etsy we (ab)use our memcache infrastructure pretty heavily as a caching layer between our applications and our database tiers. We functionally partition our memcache instances into small pools and overall it works fabulously well. We have however suffered occasionally from what we call “hot keys” What is a “Hot” key? MORE >>

Thursday is guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing and today’s guest is from Ross Kimbarovsky   – Enjoy! brand is the sum total of the experiences your customers and potential customers have with your company. strong brand communicates what your company does, how it does it, and at the same time, establishes trust and credibility. Be unique. MORE >>