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Stories of Opportunity from the First Round Capital Key Hire Wire – COO, VP of Business Development, Online Marketing Director

This is going to be BIG.

On top of that throw in a bunch of web servers and SQL databases, cross-platform 3D graphics code and a highly scalable physics engine and you get the idea. Tags: First Round Capital Venture Capital & Technology nextNY. Thousands of our users create interesting content every day. We have a deep technology stack.

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Watching Larry Ellison become Larry Ellison — The DNA of a Winner

Steve Blank

Larry had the DNA I’ve seen common with all the successful entrepreneurs I’ve backed in my 25 years of Venture Capital work—only he had a more exaggerated case than most. The choice of the SQL a way to ask questions (queries) in an easy-to-understand language. Filed under: Technology , Venture Capital.

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boldstart 2021 recap & what’s ?? in enterprise 2022

BeyondVC

From idea to product launch: New company launches out of stealth include developer first startups Jit Security (orchestration for dev first security), Slim (container optimization), Atomic Jar (integration testing shifted ), Cloudquery (OSS cloud asset inventory SQL), CodeSee (code visualization), Liveblocks (API for collaboration), and SaaS co UtilizeCore (..)

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Ex-Facebookers launch MemSQL to make your database fly

gigaom.com

On Monday, former Facebookers Eric Frenkiel and Nikita Shamgunov (who also spent six years as a senior engineer on Microsoft SQL Server) launched a startup called MemSQL that seeks to speed relational databases by taking a page out of the Facebook playbook. All told, he claims MemSQL performs up to 30 times faster than disk-based databases.

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

blog.expensify.com

If someone comes to you with Ruby on Rails experience, do you assume they are ignorant of SQL? I learned C# and.NET (along with HTML/CSS/JS/SQL/etc) because that’s what they used. I’ll put my MVC/C#/SQL Server against your LAMP any day. March 25, 2011 at 2:27 pm. FYI It’s not April yet. Matt Sherman.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams. automatic links to generated images Rietveld - asynchronous code reviews on changesets Tech*if*er0*urs – blog on roadmap for learning rails Best free programming books Project Management Basecamp - web-based project management and collaboration tool.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). SQL database hosting from browser.Python/Javascript APIs. Boilerplate Venture Funding Documents. National Venture Capital Association â?? Raising Venture Capital. Venture Hacks equity section. About VC Cafe. Seed Startups.