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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.

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

For example, Friendster was famously vertically partitioned at one time in its growth curve. I normally recommend you just store this directory on your master database, but you could use a standalone vertical shard (or even a key-based partition!) This type of vertical partitioning sharding scheme wont work in most cases.

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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

abovethecrowd.com

Four years later, in May of 2003, they launched Taobao Marketplace, Alibaba’s answer to eBay. In many cases, a deeper focus on a particular category or vertical allows these marketplaces to distinguish themselves from broader marketplaces like eBay. As you can see, that can be a big mistake. based teachers.

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Companies They Admire Most For Innovation

Hearpreneur

JetBlue has had to recreate established models and vertically integrate where the adjacent experiences for the customer and courageous brand to reinvent an entire ecosystem in this way. I admire their continuous commitment to improving product innovation around the travel experience, a standard that consumers have come to expect.

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Getting The Website Information Architecture Right: How to Structure Your Site for Optimal User Experiences

ConversionXL

Should the main menu be horizontal or vertical? While there’s a strong case against the left vertical menus , two studies (2003 and 2004) actually claim it’s better. I say you should opt for horizontal menu whenever possible, but go for the left vertical menu if you’ve got a ton of menu items (Amazon!).

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Website Information Architecture: How to Optimize for UX

ConversionXL

Should the main menu be horizontal or vertical? While there’s a strong case against left-vertical menus , two studies (2003 and 2004) claim it’s better. I say you should opt for a horizontal menu whenever possible, but go for the left vertical menu if you’ve got a ton of menu items (e.g.

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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. He is starting to see this occur in sites that are verticalizing content. It has become a short form premium destination that is verticalizing content in category channels. He does think there are opportunities in vertical search. 37:00-40:30).

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