Steve Blank
OCTOBER 1, 2009
Top management was trying to coordinate all of the operating details (sales, manufacturing, distribution and marketing,) across all the divisions and the company almost went bankrupt that year when poor planning led to excess inventory (with unsold cars piling up at dealers and the company running out of cash.)
Startup Lessons Learned
FEBRUARY 10, 2009
Our tests suite takes nine minutes to run (distributed across 30-40 machines). The longer you wait to find out about the problem, the more likely it is to have fallen out of the human-memory cache. Labels: agile , continuous deployment , lean startup , product development , Test-driven development 4comments: Nivi said.
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Startup Lessons Learned
JANUARY 4, 2009
This is true of most web application servers, caches like memcached, and all of the network infrastructure that connects them. For example, you might notice that caching gets a lot easier if you have good metadat about which queries are associated with the same entity. This is a good summary and very useful data layer scaling approach.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 5, 2008
Three of my favorite: memcached - an in-memory object caching system. MogileFS - "Distributed (meta) file system. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Spray files across cheap disks on your network. Pay less for storage. Expo SF (May.
ConversionXL
APRIL 14, 2016
Use a caching plugin for WordPress websites or install one at the hosting level; W3 Total Cache works for both. If your site receives high volumes of traffic that are globally distributed, third-party solutions can be a tremendous help. Pingdom provides a graded scale, time, and a list of what to improve. How to Create Desire.
VC Cafe
JUNE 24, 2011
Facebook will only allow Credits to be distributed through offers by approved providers once the July 1st deadline passes and all games to switch to Credits as their payment method. Lean Startup Circle – probably the best resource here. A place to publish and discuss ideas, tactics and results from real lean startup campaigns.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 29, 2009
Ampex’s first customer was Bing Crosby who wanted to record his radio programs for rebroadcast (and had exclusive distribution rights.) Ampex made the first tape recorders in the U.S ( copied from captured German models ,) and Terman was on its board as well. More on this in the next post.
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