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4 Ways To Transform Your Side Gig Into Your Main Show

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Shravan Parsi is CEO and founder of American Ventures , and author of “ The Science Of The Deal: The DNA Of Multifamily & Commercial Real Estate Investing “ He is an entrepreneur and innovator with a background in the diverse fields of real estate investing and pharmaceutical research.

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Denouement

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Aggregate VC investment in 2009 hits a low of roughly $20B, a figure last seen in 2003 in the wake of the bursting of the dotcom and telecom bubble and 2001 recession. But during this period, many founders and investors do prize growth above most everything else. We’re only a few months past Sequoia’s famous “R.I.P.

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Health Tech Entrepreneur Builds a Business Focusing on Improving The Lives of Tens of Thousands

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Todd McGuire is the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of startup incentaHEALTH and we had to the opportunity to hear from him about starting business, the future of the company and what entrepreneurship means to him. I am the co-founder and CTO of the digital health care company incentaHEALTH. Tell us your story:

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Denouement

Agile VC

Aggregate VC investment in 2009 hits a low of roughly $20B, a figure last seen in 2003 in the wake of the bursting of the dotcom and telecom bubble and 2001 recession. But during this period, many founders and investors do prize growth above most everything else. We’re only a few months past Sequoia’s famous “R.I.P.

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29 Seriously Inspiring Interviews For Aspiring Entrepreneurs

YoungUpstarts

Lauren Bush at Under30CEO , April 21, 2011 : Lauren Bush, co-founder of FEED Projects, discusses how she applied her entrepreneurial skills to the nonprofit, social justice sector. Future innovators looking to launch their own startup can easily find inspiration in her perseverance and seemingly boundless work ethic.

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The VC Shakeout: Are We There Yet?

Agile VC

There was a healthy amount of capital ($20-30B annually) invested in VC funds during the 2003-2008 timeframe. For those who aren’t familiar, Mobius was a VC fund with offices in Silicon Valley and Boulder CO and at it’s peak Mobius had $2B+ under management. A16Z today or Founders Fund or General Catalyst a few years ago).

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

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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.