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What Did I Learn From the First VC Check I Ever Wrote?

Both Sides of the Table

I became a VC 12 years ago in 2007 when the pace of deals was much slower. Bank as well as many startups like Gusto and MakeSpace and innumerable massive clients that weren’t on my approved list of clients I could disclose ;) but we partner with Google, Adobe, Salesforce and many others. Defensible IP becomes insanely valuable?—?particularly

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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

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Most of these bots don’t obey robots.txt , that means you can’t even block them applying Web standards ( learn how to block rogue bots ). Their developers are just too fucking lazy to understand such protocols that every respected service on the Web (search engines…) obeys. ″, “somebot/2.0″,

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How to cleverly integrate your own URI shortener

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requestHandler.php [L] Please note that the code above kinda disables the Web server’s error handling. Here are a few ideas how to block rogue (crappy, not behaving, …) Web robots. from the IP address range 65.52.0.0 Other rogue bots identify themselves by IP addy, user agent, and/or referrer.

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The first 6 steps to homegrowing basic startup analytics | Futuristic Play by @Andrew_Chen

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This likely means something like Google Analytics , although there is a very large universe of equivalent tools out there as well. Google analytics can’t really tell you much - it’s not very actionable. Via a JS interface called by the client (like Google Analytics) or server-side within your methods? Block username.

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Interview with George Ruan and Donald Patterson, Quub

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I happened to connect with Don, read his research papers, and in about 2007, learned about Twitter and started using it. The idea is we do not want to go down the current path of the Web 2.0 It's not like Stanford, where you can just call someone you know at Google. What's the business model behind this?

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