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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

In this time, building a successful business meant building a company that had paying customers quarter after quarter. It did not mean building a startup into a company to flip or hype on the market with no earnings or revenue, but building a company that had paying customers. They taught you about customers, markets and profits.

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

YoungUpstarts

And even the above mentioned difficulties notwithstanding, it’s completely unclear how to pay those customers we’ve rented computing resources from. To the customer, the price in question would be really low: for instance, if we divide the price of renting the CompecTA supercomputer for one month by 10 000, we’ll get no more than 6 cents.

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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

Both Sides of the Table

Here is the video link or click on the image above. Yes an online video startup in ‘99 that helped large media companies encode and distribute their videos through portals. In 2003 one of their first investments was Qiigo, Mike Yavondite’s company. ESPN, Forbes, AOL were customers. We’re a busy bunch.

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Special: 72 Israeli Companies Exhibit at the 2010 Mobile World Congress

VC Cafe

Asocs – Founded in 2003, ASOCS develops and markets MultiComms™. AtlasCT – (Atlas Cartographic Technologies LTD) offers a wide range of products for LBS applications and services, with the ability to provide a complete solution, adjusted to the customer needs, for all types of platforms, with remote or standalone.

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The Series A crunch is hitting now. Have we even noticed?

pandodaily.com

But the angels who’ve staked their funds on spreading bits of money all over the Valley are increasingly anxious that only 20 percent of their deals — in aggregate — will get the chance to keep going. See those things around your legs, cloud customer? Pando Daily. PandoMonthly. PandoDigest. Share on Twitter.

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

Imagine you want to store data about customers, each of whom has "last name" field in your database. Customer data is normally partitioned according to customer id. What about log data about customers? For example, lets say you have data about customers. For example, consider this simple scheme. Easy to understand.

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29 Seriously Inspiring Interviews For Aspiring Entrepreneurs

YoungUpstarts

Learn a little something about innovation when developing and marketing video games from the co-founder of Fine & Dandy Games, whose Goop proved successful on the iPad and iPhone amongst hefty competition. Patrick Chukwura at Young Entrepreneurs , Sept. Beh Weng Wei at Tech65.org Beh Weng Wei at Tech65.org