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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. of the fund.

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Frameworks Round 5

TechEmpower

We have posted Round 5 of our ongoing project measuring the performance of web application frameworks and platforms. Additionally, we have added a new test type focused on writes, wherein a variable number of database updates are executed per request. This is Round 5, but it''s only the first round with Windows results. RC1 , Go 1.1

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Carving An Internet Niche With FamousBirthdays.com

socalTECH

I love the web and love Internet marketing. We realized afer 2011 that we were spreading ourselves thin by trying to make five to ten websites great. Evan Britton: We had worked our tails off in 2011, but at the end of the year, all of our sites were flat. What''s your background and how did you decide to start the site?

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Frameworks Round 1

TechEmpower

You are viewing the first round of web application framework benchmarks. Among the many factors to consider when choosing a web development framework, raw performance is easy to objectively measure. This machine is responsible for hosting the web application exclusively. Web servers. Motivation. Environment Details.

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Framework Benchmarks

TechEmpower

Among the many factors to consider when choosing a web development framework, raw performance is easy to objectively measure. This machine is responsible for hosting the web application exclusively. Two Intel Sandy Bridge Core i7-2600K workstations with 8 GB memory each (early 2011 vintage) for the i7 tests. Web servers.

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Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

SoCal CTO

Berkonomics , November 29, 2010 Rice Alliance IT/Web 2.0 Forum December 9th Lineup - Startup Houston , November 27, 2010 When to step on the gas and go for it?

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Interview with Steve Jillings, TeleSign

socalTECH

2011 was an incredibly huge year for us, and 2012 will be the same way. Telesign provides authentication services for the largest web companies in the world. If you think of literally any large consumer web company, they are either a client today, or in a pilot process with us. In 2011, we had two of our patents approved.