View from Seed
JUNE 23, 2022
Dennis Chim (DC): Monetization is difficult for influencers, but social commerce has given them the ability to sell directly to their fans rather than referring away traffic to online retailers like Amazon. DC: Short-term: Do-it-yourself (DIY) social media influencers in the United States with 100K+ followers. Get to know the business.
Haystack
DECEMBER 29, 2018
Over the next few decades, I expect forces in Washington DC to use economic and monetary policy to attempt to rebalance the trade relationship between the world’s two most dynamic countries. China’s growth over the past few decades has been remarkable. Frankly, the scale of it has snuck up on the U.S. 2/ The Scooter Phenomenon.
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Startup Lessons Learned
JANUARY 4, 2009
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.
Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 5, 2009
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. Take your typical scalability bottleneck. At any given point in time, which is the right solution?
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 13, 2011
So it was wonderful to hear from a leading venture capital firm based in Washington DC. We are a venture capital growth equity fund in Washington DC with about $500m invested. A contemporary analog to this type of vertical integration is Comcast/NBC-U. There are of course other outposts like Austin and Seattle.
Startup Lessons Learned
AUGUST 24, 2009
I have a question though- do you think that most content metrics (the ebook example you mentioned) should be developed by the "author" to target their specific data, or do you think there are opportunities for a new business vertical that give these tools directly to the creator. August 24, 2009 2:17 PM Norbert Mocsnik said.
Gust
OCTOBER 12, 2011
I requested data from the leaders of 46 angel groups in 26 states (plus DC) and 2 provinces. DC Dinner Clubs. DC/Virginia. Because of the interest in the 2010 survey, I decided to survey a larger number of North American angel groups this summer (2011). Cincinnati. SeedStep Angels. flat to up. Mid-Atlantic Angel Group.
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