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Frameworks Round 2

TechEmpower

This change accounts for the very slight increase in rps seen in several frameworks, including those that saw no change to their benchmark or library code. Two Intel Sandy Bridge Core i7-2600K workstations with 8 GB memory each (early 2011 vintage) for the i7 tests. We didn''t switch tools to improve the rps numbers, though.

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[Review] Steve Jobs

YoungUpstarts

Jobs’ death on 5 Oct 2011 at the age of 56 due to pancreatic cancer has been one of the most talked about death in recent history. In his own words, Jobs “screwed” players like Google and Microsoft whom he considered as being too promiscuous in allowing other manufacturers to use their software and applications.

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2011

Startup Lessons Learned

I'm excited for 2011, and I want to share some of my plans for the coming year. In that spirit, I want to review the four priorities I laid out at the start of this year. In some ways, it was a big success: the class was oversubscribed, had a record number of auditors, and received positive reviews. Thank you, 2010.

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The Most Obvious Mobile Ad Unit and What the New York Times Got Wrong

Both Sides of the Table

According to Forrester Research (2011 report) 77% users who abandoned an online purchase cite the inability to speak to some as their primary reason for leaving. Higher conversion rates (10-15x online conversion) and higher value at closure (up to 2x higher) due to up-sell & cross-sell potential. We have ridden the mobile wave.

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Cracking The Code: SaaS Multiples: Recovery or Bubble?

Cracking the Code

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Wednesday, February 23, 2011. It would have been easy to explain the difference by changes in the 2010/2011 revenue growth projections but unfortunately that is not the case.

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Israeli Startups Raised $2.14 Billion in 2011

VC Cafe

The latest IVC report reveals that in 2011, 546 Israeli high-tech companies raised $2.14 Let’s take a look at how VC money was deployed in Israel 2011. In 2011, 546 Israeli high-tech companies attracted $2.14 The average first investment in 2011 was $2.21 The average first investment in 2011 was $2.21

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9 Women Can’t Make a Baby in a Month

Both Sides of the Table

Those of us that are willing to admit that we fawked things up in the first dot-com explosion and learned from our mistakes have the battle wounds to make more pragmatic decisions in 2011. They had to spend time training our new resources, reviewing code, refactoring where mistakes were made, attending meetings, etc.