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500 Startups unveils its Fall 2012 accelerator lineup: More international and more sh*t founders say

The Next Web

accelerator and brought on two venture partners to help oversee its India investments. Startups in this class come from far and away, including Argentina, Austria, Australia, Brazil, Croatia, Denmark, India, Japan, Italy, Latvia & Estonia, Spain, and Taiwan. Kickfolio: service to help brands market their iPhone apps.

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Liquidity Hacking - How to Build a Two-Sided Marketplace

A Crowded Space

Find aggregators. Find physical aggregators  There are various aggregators in the real world that provide really novel ways to hack liquidity. Find supply aggregators  Lets say you need a whole bunch of freelance developers. Focus on a vertical  You started with anything? See: Github , OpenTable.

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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. Using memcacheds multiget, which allows the fetching of many keys in parallel, I have written code to aggregate all the shard lookups for a given page and prefetch them, reducing the overhead even further. Key-based partitioning. to store it.

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Cloud Europe 2017: The Factory is Cranking

Cracking the Code

12 cloud IPOs in the past 2 years: One from Europe SaaS companies are thriving in the public markets, with their aggregated market cap grew 350% since 2011, and 12 cloud companies going public in the past 24 months. These 12 have performed well, with an aggregate $2.6 in the US, $2.6B in Europe and $0.9B

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25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time

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Between the worse data aggregation method and the much higher amount of work Wesabe made you do, it was far easier to have a good experience on Mint , and that good experience came far more quickly. the hardware ecosystem in India) and internal reasons (e.g. I was about to become the first person in America to sell condom key chains.

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Impact Investing: a time for problems to become opportunities

VC Cafe

According to her data, Montanes says impact tech VCs have yet to realize exits: around 100 startups have been acquired (and a few IPOs) with an aggregate value of around $90 billion (excluding $18 billion of Tesla’s IPO). Israel, a hub for Impact Tech?