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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

The Rise of Mergers and Acquisitions -– March 2003 -2008 After the dot.com bubble collapsed, the IPO market (and most tech M&A deals) shutdown for technology companies. For the next four or five years, technology M&A boomed, growing from 50 in 2003 to 450 in 2006. However, it is far more unpredictable at the individual level.

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The Crucial Questions Every Project Manager Needs To Ask – And The KPIs To Answer Them

YoungUpstarts

A report that can be filtered and aggregated by data points like team, portfolio, or customer, also acts as a KPI that allows teams to identify which projects need attention, which are profiting, and which are facing losses. He has over 20 years of experience in the IT industry and has managed dozens of software development projects.

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How Startups Can Use Metrics to Drive Success

Both Sides of the Table

I ran my first marathon in London this way in 2003 raising $3,000 for Parkinson’s disease (and finishing in under 4 hours – my publicly stated goal). How many social networks, picture sharing sites, new aggregators or blogs can we really spend time on? Nobody likes to raise money then look like a loser. In 6 months? In 3 months?

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5 Content Marketing Strategies for Niche B2B Industries

ConversionXL

Set up in 2003, the website has a strong network-effect moat that makes it harder for other blogs and publications to compete. Create content to answer hundreds of these questions, and, in aggregate, you can reach a huge audience of relevant prospects. Conclusion.

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

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. The mappings never change (unless you build a data migration tool, in which case they change rarely) and so are easy to cache.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter March 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

Since 2003 the global market for children’s nutrition and infant formula products has nearly doubled reaching about $23 billion in 2009. The British mobile payments and messaging aggregator will become part of Amdocs’ OpenMarket US mobile transactions hub.

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A Hack for Technical Interviewing

www.readwriteweb.com

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