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How Lemming VCs Cause Venture Recessions

Mucker Lab

Combined with the usual summer slowdown, some are already raising the spectre of 2001 or 2008. Vertical integration of different funding risks. I also believe that the ebb and flow of the venture investment cycle has been exacerbated by the recent vertical integration of early, growth, and even late stage venture funds.

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

Despite all the energy invested in talking to authors about the size of their platform, very few gatekeepers have a rigorous set of metrics for measuring it. The problem is that there are no other metrics they can look at to judge the content of a book to know if it’s worth reviewing. Is that a lot? 12comments: Dougvs said.

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Startup CEO New Years Resolutions

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Shawn Gupta of OhLife , a personal journaling tool over email, has similar sentiments in using metrics to drive product innovation: Make metrics a core part of our product development. I asked the CEO’s of the companies that I work with, ”What are your company related new years resolutions?” Improve the product.

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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

The Rise of Mergers and Acquisitions -– March 2003 -2008 After the dot.com bubble collapsed, the IPO market (and most tech M&A deals) shutdown for technology companies. In the Fall of 2008, the credit crisis wiped out mergers and acquisitions as a path to liquidity as M&A collapsed with the rest of the market. So what’s left?

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The curse of prevention

Startup Lessons Learned

It could be fixed by refactoring the code itself, or by partitioning the data horizontally or vertically, or by adding additional capacity at the point of the bottleneck, or by shaping end-user demand, or even by removing the feature itself. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Take your typical scalability bottleneck.

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

For example, Friendster was famously vertically partitioned at one time in its growth curve. I normally recommend you just store this directory on your master database, but you could use a standalone vertical shard (or even a key-based partition!) This type of vertical partitioning sharding scheme wont work in most cases.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

It’s like arguing against vertical software. Just as.NET is both a lock-in and very restricting, and Java violates both “lean cuisine class hierarchy” and “objects if necessary, but not necessarily objects”, the “we’ll just use XML” mantra deserves to die. March 26, 2011 at 9:02 am.

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