This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Your results, thanks to our high performance compute cloud should be available within an hour. DNAnexus ( www.dnanexus.com ) is pioneering the combination of cloud computing and whole-genome DNA sequence analysis. Our team dabbles in everything from S3 and EC2 cloud services to SIMD and assembly code.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 12, 2007

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Getting the most of your online marketing: the In & Out of SEM/SEO. Cracking The Code. Monday, February 12, 2007. on a scale of 1-4). on a scale of 1-4).

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

We wanted an agile approach that would allow us to build our software architecture as we needed it, without downtime, but also without large amounts of up-front cost. After all, the worst kind of waste in software development is code to support a use case that never materializes. How to listen to customers, and not just the loud.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

They can be utilized across teams— UX , CRO, social media, SEM, SEO , etc., What software do you use on a daily basis? You use them to make better marketing, product, and business decisions and to keep your customer top-of-mind when doing so. can all benefit from a better idea of the customer.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

In addition to presenting the IMVU case, we tried for the first time to do an overview of a software engineering methodology that integrates practices from agile software development with Steves method of Customer Development. Can this methodology be used for startups that are not exclusively about software?

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FEBRUARY 28, 2009

This builds on a lot of great thinking that has come before, like the agile movements insistence that only the creation of working code counts as progress for a software development team. Ive told the story of how this desperation turned us on to Google AdWords in SEM on five dollars a day. Pretty soon we ran out of friends.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 2, 2008 On deployment My favorite question to ask a software development team is "how do you do a release." How long does the software sit un-deployed? Software is generally always getting better or getting worse. You can tell a lot about a company from their deployment flow.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Its inspired by the classic OODA Loop and is really just a simplified version of that concept, applied specifically to creating a software product development team. Were a software company, so what we do everyday is turn ideas into code. There are three stages: We start with ideas about what our product could be.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 1, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 1, 2008 Test-Driven Development as andon cord You cannot control what you cannot see, and the hardest part of managing software projects is that the final product is so intangible. In almost all Agile Development systems, thousands of automated tests are run against every change to the software.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

I am convinced one of Joel Spolskys lasting contributions to the field of managing software teams will turn out to be the Joel Test , a checklist of 12 essential practices that you could use to rate the effectiveness of a software product development team. Please leave feedback!) They just dont happen.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 7, 2017

They can be utilized across teams – UX, CRO, Social Media, SEM, SEO, etc., What software do you use on a daily basis? You use them to make better marketing, product, and business decisions and to keep your customer top-of-mind when doing so. can all benefit from a better idea of the customer.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

It became harder and harder to separate how the software is built from how the software is structured. If not, whos going to insist we switch to free and open source software? But along the way, something strange happened. How can it work if some folks are pre-building and others use five whys to drive decisions?

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

It felt like software that grownups were supposed to use, and we didnt qualify. It cost us a few hundred thousand dollars to get our app up and running, but none of that was dollars spent on software licenses or professional services. I dont really remember why it didnt work. It wouldnt boot. It would boot and crash. yeah, its awesome.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

His post is ostensibly about how often to release new work (whether youre a blog writer, movie star, software team.) I’ve been in the software industry for a long time. But Seth Godin is a great writer, so I dont see why I cant crib from him whenever. That’s all fine and dandy. Is that mass all that critical?

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www.cscyphers.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Thanks >> 2012/03/01 RT @newsycombinator : How Not To Sell Software in 2012 [link] >> 2012/03/01 New Blog Post: MapR, HDFS and Forking Code #strataConf : I was in the exhibition hall of StrataConf talking with. Cloud Computing (5). Some techies have business sense; most generally don’t have a highly developed one. Categories.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

In some businesses, especially in certain industries like traditional enterprise software, you simply cannot bring a new product to market on your own. Start with a five-dollar-a-day SEM campaign. Im just about starting a software company with a very dedicated team. Establish credibility with potential partners. Dont scale.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

For example, we used to be baffled at IMVU by the significant minority of people who would download the software but never chat with anyone. I originally thought I might get some development process tips (I manage developers), but I find that Im really enjoying your business tips (SEM, listening to customers, etc.). More of the same.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

My favorite instance of this is scheduling software. Accurate - if youve ever been managed by task-tracking software, youll relate to the feeling that you either have to spend ludicrous amounts of time posting updates or the information goes stale. Its another example of the refactoring principle in action.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. “Just say no” to on-premise deployments The most important part of Software-as-a-Service isn’t “Software” it’s “Service”! Cracking The Code. at 11:09 AM.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Their company can focus in any area– software, hardware, medical device or a service of any kind. Setup your Google or Amazon cloud infrastructure. Actually engage in “search engine marketing” (SEM)spend $20 as a team to test customer acquisition cost. Any hardware or software you need to buy? How many people?

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

For example, trying to make server software more scalable. SEM on five dollars a day Andrew Chen: Growing renewable audiences Marc Prensky's Weblog: Cell Phones in Class A new version of the Joel Test (draft) Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your c. Our instinct is sometimes to do giant big-bang rewrites.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

Take a look at The App Store after the gold rush - FierceDeveloper : According to a recent BusinessWeek feature , the flood of new games, productivity tools and related iPhone software is making it difficult for the vast majority of apps to crack the consumer consciousness. Acqusition competition is how new apps get new customers.

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