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JULY 29, 2010

If you’re working at a startup and the founding team is promising that they’ll “get around to creating an employee stock option plan&# soon – demand it now. There’s some stuff here that I even prefer not to put into writing. Are the write ups worth doing or not? Bad behavior but prevalent.

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Venture Capital Capital Startup Pricing 282

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APRIL 21, 2010

In writing anything positive about any of the companies I’m not suggesting that it means that I prefer them to any of their competitors. Also, some of the deals I write about I have actually seen as part of their fund raising process. So there is likely robust demand from borrowers. Enter P2P lending. Enter Xobni.

Venture Capital 265

Venture Capital Capital Email Blogging 265

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JANUARY 28, 2011

I honestly believe I learned more by rising up the ranks and becoming the president of my fraternity than I did in the class room reading about supply & demand curves in economics. I’ll write that post one day – it is a very interesting story. She’s protecting them from the most intellectually demanding activities.

CTO Hire 363

CTO Hire Technical Review Startup Demand 363

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DECEMBER 9, 2010

They built in a feature called “auto scaling&# that monitored for traffic spikes and automatically provisioned new servers on demand and decommissioned them if your traffic surge subsided. They have built tools to store the data but also to allow 3rd-party developers to rapidly consume or even write data to their tables.

Startup 343

Startup Technical Review S3 Services 343