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Lean Startup at Scale

Startup Lessons Learned

At this point, we have our own open-sourced click tracking "lil brother," an internal data visualization tool built on Rickshaw, as well as an A/B testing platform called Absinthe. Continuous deployment: A key component of speed is to keep pushing out work.

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Case Study: Rapid iteration with hardware

Startup Lessons Learned

In 2003 we started developing a martial arts motion sensing toy, a full three years before the Nintendo Wii changed the world of motion sensing. version of the product, but the toy manufacturer we licensed the toy to, wasn't interested in a new version, as the original version continues to sell well to this day.

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

We can take advantage of the many open source libraries out there that dont scale especially well, and write as much non-scalable code as we want. Even though I had done it before, I had never heard the term sharding before joining Google (early 2003) so I always thought the term originated there. Eric, I stop by regularly!