YoungUpstarts

APRIL 2, 2018

A method of solving time-consuming computing tasks by utilizing multiple computers usually united into a parallel computing system is commonly referred to as grid computing or distributed computing. The aggregate computing power of the project is more than 960 TFLOPS. Prime time. Searching for extraterrestrial intelligence.

Search 179

Search Aggregator Distribution Framework 179

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Venture Capitalists on your board developed the expertise to get your firm public as soon as possible using whatever it took including hype, spin, expand, and grab market share because the sooner you got your billion dollar market cap, the sooner the VC firm could sell their shares and distribute their profits.

Silicon Valley 237

Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 237

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

Yes an online video startup in ‘99 that helped large media companies encode and distribute their videos through portals. In 2003 one of their first investments was Qiigo, Mike Yavondite’s company. Richard’s email address is public but it is hard to manage all the inbound cold emails. Startup after Iron Planet? (6:00

Vertical 265

Vertical Curation Boston Burn Rate 265

Startup Company Lawyer

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

Due to aggregate liquidation preferences that may exceed the acquisition price in an M&A deal, common stock may be rendered worthless. This was particularly common from 2001 to 2003, after the dot-com crash when companies had raised a large amount of venture financing at high valuations. Participation. Allocation.

Retention 31

Retention Liquidation Preference Employee Common Stock 31

om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

We recently wrapped up our strategy offsite, an annual event that brings together the members of our very distributed team – 12 different cities in four different countries – to discuss what our aspirations and ambitions are for the coming year. Build a true, peer-to-peer management culture. STARTING IT UP.

Founder 80

Founder Conversion Distribution Silicon Valley 80

VC Cafe

APRIL 8, 2010

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. Net-Aye is a subsidiary of Bar-Tec Ltd. and was founded in 1998.

OTC 68

OTC Brazil Paraguay 68

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

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. This is great for something like a huge DHT or a distributed work queue. The actual directory itself is straightforward.

San Francisco 151

San Francisco Architecture Startup Database 151