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Bad returns be damned: Venture capital fundraising jumps 31 percent in U.S

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Story Behind “The Secret History” Part IV: Library Hours at an.

Steve Blank

theses, ESL had built receivers so sensitive they seemed like science fiction. I continued to give these briefings as a consultant to ESL even after I had joined my first chip startup; Zilog. Here was a real-world example of the Cold War “ offset strategy.&# Taking concepts that had been only abstract Ph.D It had no PR agency.

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

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Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, January 4, 2009 Sharding for startups The most important aspect of a scalable web architecture is data partitioning. Sharding for startups To support a single partitioning scheme is easy, especially if you design for it from the start. But startups rarely have either luxury. to store it.