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Startups working on a technology called Hadoop have become talent magnets in Silicon Valley, hiring top engineers away from the likes of Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and Facebook.
And they've become a popular investment for ex-Cisco execs turned VCs, too.
Hadoop is software for managing "big data." It makes it cheap and easy to store massive bits of information and then sift through it to find interesting trends. For instance, Google's Flu Trends uses Hadoop to see where flu outbreaks are by watching where people are doing flu-related searches.
Most of these folks could have their picks of startups. Why Hadoop?
Hadoop lets companies build applications that were never before possible. It works with a mind-boggling amount of stored data -- petabytes -- and runs on cheap hardware. In the past, applications with data this big needed a supercomputer to process and a big network to move the data around. Now, apps that analyze trends, predict the weather, sift through social media can be done using a handful of ordinary, low-cost servers.
That's why high-profile geeks are increasingly turning to these companies. Take MapR for instance. Its team reads like a Valley who's-who.
Co-founder M.C. Srivas hails from Google where he ran one of Google's major search infrastructure teams. Dave Jespersen was previously vice president of engineering at EMC. Brad Mandell was global director for one of Cisco's most important business units, Security. MapR even snagged a guy that built security products for Microsoft, Tomer Shiran.
MapR was funded by ex-Cisco exec Barry Eggers from VC Lightspeed and former VMware exec Peter Sonsini, who is now part of NEA.
Former Cisco M&A man Mike Volpi, now at Index Ventures, was one of the VCs who funded another Hadoop startup, Hortonworks. It's a Yahoo spin-off, so it's of course loaded with Yahoo-ites. But it also landed Mark Himelstein, former top engineer at Sun, as its VP of engineering.
Another Hadoop start-up, Cloudera, was founded by ex-Yahoo Amr Awadallah. It hijacked Jeff Hammerbacher from Facebook and includes talent taken from VMware (Ed Albanese) and SAP (Charles Zedlewski). And it just scored another $40 million in new funding last month.
Hadoop is freely available as an open source project from the keeper of such things, the Apache Foundation. But because it is complicated to set up, enterprises are going to want to hire help, and that's where these start-ups come in.
Watch for the fight over Hadoop to get really hot in 2012.
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A note to all future presidential candidates — buy yourname.com.
Newt Gingrich provides the latest example of a campaign domain name oversight that is coming back to embarrass him. Gingrich owns Newt.org, but NewtGingrich.com is controlled by someone with very different motives.
The website alternately redirects to a slew of websites with negative association to Newt: from the homepage of Tiffany, to the Freddie Mac homepage, to negative news articles about his campaign.
A search of the Wayback Machine shows that "The Gingrich Group" controlled the eponymous domain name, in 2001, but by 2002 it became home to an internet slot website.
It's not clear who's behind this attack on Gingrich, and the domain is registered anonymously.
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20-year-old Ernestine Fu joined VC firm Alsop Louie Partners as an associate in March and made the cover of Forbes magazine in August.
She's already made a name for herself as the youngest VC in Silicon Valley.
But her life for the most part, is pretty normal as she spends her days as a college student at Stanford University.
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Students at Stanford seek her out, hoping that if they pitch their startup idea to her -- she just might fund them.
One time, a student actually knocked on her door. (Fu wasn't there. But sure enough, she later got an email telling her about the visit.).
The undergrads usually want to start the next Facebook, but they have nothing more than an idea, Fu told us. The graduate students usually have a more solid business plan. "I'd say the biggest challenge in looking at Stanford startups is quality rather than quantity; so many students want to start their own companies!" she said.
This semester, Fu has been busy: She's started Stanford's Newest Entrepreneurship Course, teaches doctoral students, got admitted (2 years early) to Stanford Graduate School, and sits on Board of Trustees with the president of Stanford. It's a checklist typical of an overachiever. Even in her free time, she is a thrill seeker -- check skydiving off that list.
Fu went through a couple interviews after meeting the VC Stewart Alsop back in November 2010. The firm hired her in March this year. Two months into the job, Fu sourced her first deal: $1.3M for Qwhisper.
So why did Fu fund Qwhisper?
Fu said "Because Qwhisper is a team of Stanford PhD's working on bringing meaning to growing content scattered across different social networks. They realize that Natural Language Processing is extremely important in search because when done right, it gets the intent of the speaker rather than relying on keys words and matching."
As far as the whole work-life balance thing, Fu loves it. "If you're earnest and passionate about what you do, time flies by and work gets done," she said.
So what exactly is she passionate about? "Hmm, being Ernestine. Is that okay? (: "
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