Innovating VC with Platform and Community
Innovating VC with Platform and Community
An entrepreneur’s job is complex
Venture Business is Simple Simple ≠ Easy
1. Pick Companies 2. Help Companies
2. Help Companies
1. Money 2. Partner Advice
1. Money 2. Partner Advice
1. Money 2. Partner Advice
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- Knowledge “how do I do x?” - Talent - Business Development/Partnerships - Research/Insights
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1. Money 2. Partner Advice Where’s the Innovation?
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What Should You Be Asking For From Your VC?
We Asked Ourselves the Same Question
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Venture Capitalist
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CEOs- Please forward this (immediately) to anyone you know with MySQL scalability and tuning expertise. Have them call me at xxx.xxx.xxxx! We thought we prepared for some scale (we spent all last week testing), but we've had about 150,000 unique visitors in the past 24 hours, and over 20,000 signups. Each signup adds 3-4 financial accounts with hundreds to thousands of financial transactions per account. Our site is crawling, and we've isolated it to our MySQL DB. I think we have the hardware to handle it (16 GB of mem, 15,000 RPM RAID 10 disks, 8-CPU box). However, we need a real expert to: 1) Make sure we have the right configuration parameters and caching (immediately) 2) Help us with database partitioning or replication strategies (in the next few days) We're well funded. We can pay well for assistance. Even if it's just a simple phone call to give us any pointers we might not have thought of, we could use the help. Thanks, Aaron Founder & CEO, Mint.com
Peer to Peer Model
- Curated - Trusted - Collaborative - Confidential
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The Result
- Software driven network effects - Transformative value outside of the C-Suite - More successful companies - More fun
1. Money 2. Partner Advice 3. Community / Network
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