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The Changing Venture Landscape

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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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Top Ten infoChachkie Entries Of 2011

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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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Frameworks Round 5

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Additionally, we have added a new test type focused on writes, wherein a variable number of database updates are executed per request. MySQL with MyISAM was substantially faster at writes than with InnoDB, but the official Round 5 results are using InnoDB. This is Round 5, but it''s only the first round with Windows results.

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Carving An Internet Niche With FamousBirthdays.com

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We own the celebrity birthday niche--we''re first in Google for searching for celebrity birthdays on every day of the year. 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.

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An Enchanting Conversation With Guy Kawasaki

InfoChachkie

Guy’s latest book, Enchantment , was released in March of 2011, to overwhelmingly upbeat reviews. Guy, how would your 2004 book, Art Of The Start , differ, if you were writing it today? If I were writing the book today, there would be a whole chapter or two…about how to use Facebook and Twitter. That doesn’t work.”.

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The Harder I Work, The Luckier I Get

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That’s how it felt then and a bit how it feels in May 2011. Would Google have become today’s juggernaut without Yahoo! What if Google had paid attention to Dodgeball – would there be no FourSquare today? &#. I started by writing 3-4 times / week. If you were reading the headlines from only 2.5

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Why Most of Your Assumptions About Phone Calls are Wrong

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In fact 61% of all mobile searches where a customer contacts a business it is via a phone call (source: Google). I’m sure you’ve heard the meme that “email is dead” – if fact if you Google it you’ll find a long list of articles that will mislead you. Google knows it. There are 2.9

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