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I’m joining ff Venture Capital

David Teten

Since 1999, ff has made over 100 investments in over 35 companies , and from the beginning has been highly focused on generating industry leading returns. Although any given early-stage company is quite risky, when aggregated across a large portfolio, returns are very attractive. Official blog post and more details here.

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PC For Rent – How To Make Money Searching For Extraterrestrial Intelligence

YoungUpstarts

As of December 2017, the GIMPS project had reached an aggregate computing power of approximately 320 TeraFLOPS (320 trillion floating-point operations per second). The aggregate computing power of the project is more than 960 TFLOPS. The majority of the largest known prime numbers are Mersenne primes. million CPUs.

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Consumer RSS: 1999-2010

Venture Chronicles

As a result, RSS aggregator usage has slowed significantly, and Bloglines isn’t the only service to feel the impact. Today RSS is the enabling technology – the infrastructure, the delivery system. RSS is a means to an end, not a consumer experience in and of itself. The writing is on the wall.”.

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Entrepreneurship in the Fast Lane

Growthink Blog

Try these statistics on for size, from 1999 to today Asia’s share of the world’s Initial Public Offerings grew from 12% to 66%. goods and services, especially services, and they are expanding in aggregate at a rate that even 10% U.S. Pursue Global Markets. 7 Companies in China have raised more than $1 billion in an IPO this year.

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10 Product Recommendation Techniques to Improve UX and Conversions

ConversionXL

Recommendations can be powered by aggregate data, which determines the relevance of a certain item in relation to a given context, or user specific data, that fuels personalized recommendations. Here, an item can mean a piece of content, a product, or even a person (in the case of dating sites, for instance).

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The Future is Better than You Think

Growthink Blog

Try these statistics on for size, from 1999 to today Asia’s share of the world’s Initial Public Offerings grew from 12% to 66%. goods and services, especially services, and they are expanding in aggregate at a rate that even 10% U.S. These are fantastic new markets for U.S. domestic GNP growth couldn’t touch.

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High Returns On A Small Fund Challenge Low Returns On A Big Fund

David Teten

An article on the New Enterprise Associates blog by Partner Tom Grossi , however, makes an interesting point: most of the megafunds were raised since 1999, a period in which the entire industry did poorly. Firstly, “fund size” can be misleading as some firms prefer to raise a large aggregate amount split between several concurrent funds.

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