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HeyZap's Looking For A Strong Software Engineer In SF - http://www.avc.com/a_vc...
like ... weight lifter? - tylergillies
Re: Hacker News and the NoSQL Movement - http://www.avc.com/a_vc...
"It would be great for someome (maybe everyone via a wiki) to start cataloging these different data store technologies and what each is good for and bad for" - Fred Wilson
Most of them are tracked by highscalability.com, probably the best place for people with generic interest in the space to go and see the latest: http://highscalability.com/tags... - Sam Pullara
...and yet most of these technologies still require a (SQL-like) query language in order to extract data from the datastore. so the win for NoSQL is... what? - .LAG liked that
There's a nice master list at http://www.metabrew.com/article... They did a general comparison of most of the major systems. And thanks Sam :-) I'm missing a few because things like CouchDB are so popular I didn't think it worth the while. - Todd Hoff
LAG declarative is still nice. So I don't think SQL is the real issue. It's the underlying data model and what that implies. OQL has been around for a long time and addresses most of these issues IMHO. - Todd Hoff
Todd... good point, and thanks for sharing the Metabrew article... hearing from folks dealing with a huge application like Last.FM is revealing and instructive. i don't work at that scale, but apparently there's more than just your "standard" RDBMS approach to solving these problems - .LAG liked that
Another example of this that really interests me is Persevere from SitePoint. My initial tests look very good. http://www.sitepen.com/blog... - Shaun Trennery
@Shaun ...wow! "9,000 petabytes of JSON/JS data...!" huh! what? clearly, I'm going to have start weaning myself off reliance to just SQL backends and start looking around that what else is going on. that's good knowledge. - .LAG liked that
Every investment I’ve ever made that has worked out fabulously is always a case that the investment played out in a way that we didn’t imagine. - http://fredwilson.vc/post...
I've got new Wilco and new @benkweller vinyl records on the turntable this morning. I love new and old combined like that.
Re: Hacker News and the NoSQL Movement - http://www.avc.com/a_vc...
"Thanks james. I'd like to get to know you at some point. Let me know if I can contact you about that" - Fred Wilson
Re: Hacker News and the NoSQL Movement - http://www.avc.com/a_vc...
"Awesome. I'll check it out" - Fred Wilson
Re: What VCs Are Worrying About - http://www.avc.com/a_vc...
"Of course it does steve. Were just debating what the new model is. Its like the auto business or the mortgage business. Ppl are still going to need cars and homes, but the way they are developed and sold will change. Same with VC" - Fred Wilson
Orphan Girl (Gillian Welch cover) - Crooked Still Crooked Still is a killer bluegrass band that my friend Peter Mensch turned me on to. See them live if you get the chance. Here they cover my alltime favorite country/bluegrass singer. - http://fredwilson.vc/post...
Orphan Girl (Gillian Welch cover) - Crooked Still
 
Crooked Still is a killer bluegrass band that my friend Peter Mensch turned me on to. See them live if you get the chance. Here they cover my alltime favorite country/bluegrass singer.
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i love getting thank yous from teachers via @donorschoose. this was for a gift of graphing calculators http://www.donorschoose.org/donors...
Re: What VCs Are Worrying About - http://www.avc.com/a_vc...
"Why don't you get into the business steve and start a fund where there is no mgmt fee, all carry, you've got your own capital at risk, and you do 80/20 deals with entrepreneurs You could single handedly save the business. I don't quite have the guts for it myself and I also have partners who aren't as "out there' as I am I think it could work" - Fred Wilson
Re: What VCs Are Worrying About - http://www.avc.com/a_vc...
"Yes. But it will make a difference. There are some good firms with good portfolios out there that would be well served with a return of the IPO market As for our bet, I'd prefer something simple. Let's go back over the past 20 years and calculate the avg number of VC backed IPOs per year My bet is we'll see that number or more in 2010" - Fred Wilson
Re: The Conversational Marketing Summit Interview - http://www.avc.com/a_vc...
"Kevin Rose tried that. What more would you like?" - Fred Wilson
Re: Hacker News and the NoSQL Movement - http://www.avc.com/a_vc...
"True. I've learned to skim/speed read" - Fred Wilson
Re: Hacker News and the NoSQL Movement - http://www.avc.com/a_vc...
"We need digests of the comments. I call it 'comment cliff notes'. Someone's gonna do it and it will suck a lot more people in than the current approach" - Fred Wilson
Re: A Shorter Post Than I Planned - http://www.avc.com/a_vc...
"Yeah. Tumblr works that way too. I post many of tumblr posts via email" - Fred Wilson
Re: What VCs Are Worrying About - http://www.avc.com/a_vc...
"Actually it does steve. When a VC fund works, the majority of the comp is success based What pisses you off is the compensation for the unsuccessful investors!" - Fred Wilson
Re: What VCs Are Worrying About - http://www.avc.com/a_vc...
"I am a big fan of secondary private markets. Google AVC secondary markets and you'll find a bunch of posts I've written (hopefully) I don't think IPOs are appropriate exits for the vast majority of venture backed companies. Maybe the top ten or twenty percent of our investments will make good public companies" - Fred Wilson
Re: What VCs Are Worrying About - http://www.avc.com/a_vc...
"I like your attitude but that rat dropping comment was tough to take!" - Fred Wilson
"We first have to decide how we want to invest in this sector. We are still working on it" - Fred Wilson
Re: Hacker News and the NoSQL Movement - http://www.avc.com/a_vc...
"Pete: I love the notion of the SQL trap. I've seen so many of our companies get caught in it. Thanks for sending me that post. I loved it" - Fred Wilson
Re: Hacker News and the NoSQL Movement - http://www.avc.com/a_vc...
"There's a lot to like about YC. They've created a whole new class of venture capital it seems" - Fred Wilson
Re: What VCs Are Worrying About - http://www.avc.com/a_vc...
"I agree with you both. But its a market. Somehow the terms you are railing about (rightfully) are getting set by the market" - Fred Wilson
Re: What VCs Are Worrying About - http://www.avc.com/a_vc...
"I'm not interested in that. It won't earn its bonus anyway. My bet is about the IPO market coming back, plain and simple" - Fred Wilson
Re: Hacker News and the NoSQL Movement - http://www.avc.com/a_vc...
"i've never been taken with the reddit community. i agree the services are similar and i know reddit is a great service, but for some reason, i visit HN and techmeme, but not reddit and digg. what more would you like to know about MongoDB?" - Fred Wilson
Re: Hacker News and the NoSQL Movement - http://www.avc.com/a_vc...
"james, can you point us in the direction of the startups that have made progress solving the core algorithm problems? I agree that it is unlikely that a VC like me would give such a thing a "good look" on my own. but one of the reasons I maintain this blog is that the community here can see things like this that i can't see and show me the way. thanks for a great comment fred" - Fred Wilson
Re: Hat tip to Dave Winer - http://bijansabet.com/post...
"ditto. the flickr feature does pretty much the same thing dave set up almost two years ago. if it weren't for dave, we'd have had to wait for two years for this feature. in fact, dave kept me on flickr, because otherwise i would have switched to twitpic, which i did not want to do" - Fred Wilson
Re: Hacker News and the NoSQL Movement - http://www.avc.com/a_vc...
"i think it would be great to create a wiki (maybe one exists) for applications where NoSQL makes more sense than mysql" - Fred Wilson
Re: Hacker News and the NoSQL Movement - http://www.avc.com/a_vc...
"thanks for highlighting the ASK HN posts. I've never used them but they sound terrific. i wish paul would buy hackernews.com. that's my only beef." - Fred Wilson
Re: When Talking About Business Models, Remember That Profits Equal Revenues Minus Costs - http://www.avc.com/a_vc...
"You are right, it is business 101 and its important that we keep coming back to them" - Fred Wilson
we went to peter lugers last night. my daughter emily took a bunch of cool photos including this one of the way we paid for dinner. lugers is cash only. cash only (via emilywilson) - http://fredwilson.vc/post...
we went to peter lugers last night. my daughter emily took a bunch of cool photos including this one of the way we paid for dinner. lugers is cash only.
 
cash only (via emilywilson)
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