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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. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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

Hearpreneur

incentaHEALTH was formed in 2003 around the idea of rewarding people for healthy behaviors. The daily program encourages a balanced eating plan of fruit, vegetables, lean protein, and complex carbohydrates while monitoring portion sizes. Tell us about your business. Aligning incentives with good health is one step in that direction.

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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

Both Sides of the Table

In 2003 one of their first investments was Qiigo, Mike Yavondite’s company. The second phase will be who can get the right combination lean back, lean forward, interaction, enhanced data, and make it fun. They aggregate other people’s content and curate it into categories. So it is a combination of markets and people.

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

Sharding for startups To support a single partitioning scheme is easy, especially if you design for it from the start. It also doesnt make sense to design your app for scalability from the start, since you may have to create many iterations before you find a version that requires any scalability at all. 21comments: Imran said.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

Tony P great, though meebo’s place as a “successful&# start up is still open to debate – from consumer IM aggregator to white label IM, still not making big $$. The problem is that many programmers have loads of talent with no product sense and business students have great designs with no way to implement them.

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Create High-Impact Data Visualizations: Nine Effective Strategies

Occam's Razor

By design none of them from the world of digital analytics, though I’ll stay connected to that world from a how could you use this idea perspective. I’ve said that all data in aggregate is crap. But, I really do want you to lean into this one. As we have all learned, tools matter a lot less than what we do with the tool. :).

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The Series A crunch is hitting now. Have we even noticed?

pandodaily.com

But the angels who’ve staked their funds on spreading bits of money all over the Valley are increasingly anxious that only 20 percent of their deals — in aggregate — will get the chance to keep going. Zucker, a veteran news executive, will succeed Jim Walton, who has had the job since 2003. November 29, 2012.