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Reflections On The Big Shake-Up At Kleiner Perkins

Haystack

At Kleiner specifically, after slowly shedding the “green” energy practice (more on that below), the growth team (led by Mary Meeker, more on her below) worked with the early-stage team, which is in rebuild-mode as Doerr eventually stepped aside. 6/ Big GP Losses: This part is simple. Those two alone are huge.

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The Customer Development Manifesto: The Startup Death Spiral (part.

Steve Blank

I think Customer Development (iterative model) helps by putting a strong thought in the mind (at a very early stage) that you could be wrong unless the customer agrees; this helps the mind to be more receptive.

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

Both Sides of the Table

To build applications we needed databases (Oracle), browsers (Netscape), servers (Sun Microsystems), storage (EMC), security (Semantic), application servers (Apache), caching software, load balancers, hosting facilities, programming languages and methods, CDNs, DSL equipment, Wifi routers and so forth.

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Oversi Gets $4.9 million from Carmel, Cisco, Smac and StageOne Ventures

VC Cafe

The Oversi platform offers caching solutions that enable operators to deal with the huge traffic load on their servers while improving the user’s quality of experience (read: get rid of the annoying buffering while watching online TV). PRESS RELEASE.

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Welcome to the Era of Decentralization

Hippoland

But over time, I believe that since most software isn’t truly real-time, with more clever forms of caching, more software will move in this direction. For more of my ramblings on early stage company formation, subscribe to my newsletter. This is a total mindshift. The way software is written will be completely changed.

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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Data Storage Trends

The Startup Magazine

The driving factors why more storage will be necessary locally include advanced gesture and voice recognition, intelligent assistant in the car, buffering infotainment to reduce network, bandwidth utilization of the peak network, and caching software updates. Parallel File Systems. Phase 2 is what is referred to as self-driving.

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Bitesize Friday: NowForce, Cotendo, United Parents, Zerto and Entrepreneur Resources

VC Cafe

GreenSQL has announced the launch of GreenSQL’s Enterprise Edition for Unified Database Security, offering security, caching, auditing and masking in one package, ensuring that enterprise databases are protected from internal and external threats in real-time, while improving performance and facilitating database security policy compliance.