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What Would Happen if you Built the Reverse of Amazon? It Might Look Something Like This …

Both Sides of the Table

We pride ourselves on being early-stage (thus the name, Upfront) but in this case it’s as early as it gets. He spent a few months building out the software because just taking stuff from people isn’t that difficult. After 9 months it was time to raise seed capital and go test drive our new software and processes.

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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. For now, we use the "stripped" name suffix. In the first round from last week, we used WeigHTTP ( https://github.com/lighttpd/weighttp ). Revised Environment Details.

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[Review] Heart, Smarts, Guts, And Luck

YoungUpstarts

Tackling the human aspect of entrepreneurship, leadership and management, the book surmised that each of us are biased towards one of four traits – namely heart, smarts, guts, or luck – in our decision-making processes. Highly recommended reading for anybody keen to understand themselves better.

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Framework Benchmarks Round 17

TechEmpower

Select a continuous run on the physical hardware (named "Citrine") that looks good and identify its Git commit. As you review Round 17 results, you'll notice that Postgres database tests are stratified—there are groups of test implementations that seem implausibly faster than other test implementations.

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[Review] The Social Customer

YoungUpstarts

T = Tools, the myriad platforms and software needed. To make one’s social CRM strategy come alive, the book proposes the following key ideas: 1) Adopt a strategy canvas approach (ala Blue Ocean Strategy ) to differentiate your business from the “red oceans” of competitors. m = Measurement, a necessary evil.

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Open Angel Forum San Fran – Team Calacanis Raises the Bar

Both Sides of the Table

It also attracted some big names from the Bay Area. This was in large part due to the marketing efforts of Jason that created a great top end of the funnel (100+ companies applied) and the herculean efforts of Tyler Crowley who spent days going through all of the submissions and serving up 5 very interesting companies.

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What Happens When Startups Turn from Their Innovation Stage to Operational Excellence?

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He came to work in our offices at Upfront Ventures as an EIR and immediately began building software to improve how storage was picked up, photographed, scanned and routed to a warehouse. MakeSpace (as he named it) would help you get your excess goods into low-cost warehouses.