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The Changing Venture Landscape

Both Sides of the Table

I’m over-paying for every check I write into the VC ecosystem and valuations are being pushed up to absurd levels and many of these valuations and companies won’t hold in the long term. The market today would barely be recognizable by a time traveler from 2011. Are we in a bubble?” By definition?—?I’m dot-com bonanza.

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Top Ten infoChachkie Entries Of 2011

InfoChachkie

With the exception of the week of Thanksgiving, I published two entries every week during 2011. I published 21-Skype interviews during 2011. Top Ten infoChachkie Entries Of 2011. The following entries generated the most page views during 2011. Surprisingly, not all of these entries were published in 2011.

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Why You Should Put Yourself Out There and Try New Products

Both Sides of the Table

I went to an industry event where people actually called me self-centered for writing publicly. In 2011 I started using Instagram. Here’s the thing: If you never try new product and new networks you’ll never learn anything. In 2008 I started VC blogging. I had blogged when I was an entrepreneur. By now I’m used to the haters.

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11 New Year’s Resolutions to Work Happy in 2011

Startup Professionals Musings

Welcome to the New Year 2011! Real job performance is more a function of productivity than hours worked anyway. Once a week or so, write down five things that you should be grateful for. Make your resolution today to keep the long road ahead in 2011 a satisfying one. Find a stress reliever. Listen to the music.

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I’m Back. Why I Love January

Both Sides of the Table

What I love about writing is that you inadvertently say what many others are thinking and just knowing that somebody else is thinking something similar can be reassuring. Example: Fred Wilson writing his end of 2012 post wrote. “I’ve wanted to write a year end post for days. And your favorite bloggers stop writing.

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Frameworks Round 5

TechEmpower

Additionally, we have added a new test type focused on writes, wherein a variable number of database updates are executed per request. We ran a bunch of spot-tests of the database updates test with various configurations, some scarcely suitable for a production server.

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Guerilla Marketing, Brad Feld Style

InfoChachkie

companies should… focus on building amazing products. If you have amazing products, the marketing of those products is trivial. If you have $hitty products, the marketing is impossible. Instead of focusing on marketing as an activity… integrate it into (your) products.”. Write Your Own Playbook.

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