Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

Customers will get to consume the content they want, and support the producers of that content directly, rather than having to rely exclusively on intermediaries. The key tools of this new marketing are: targeting, filtering, and customer insight. There are too many products clamoring for attention. Is that a lot? Is that good?

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APRIL 2, 2009

Think about the baseball Steroid scandal, Tour de France doping scandal, housing bubble, etc.) E.g., we take a big spec, cut the 80% that, for some core group of customers, is nice rather than necessary, and ship the 20% ASAP. Shipping 8 months early, with only half a product! Shortcuts are easy. Do the right thing.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 3, 2009

To give our leadership an estimate of the Soviet’s nuclear production capacity, the CIA also had to estimate how many nuclear weapons could the Soviet Union make. Where were their production facilities? The military needed to answer these same questions about the nuclear armed missiles the Soviets were putting on their submarine force.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2009

I’ve lived through the over-architecture failure – where attempting to prevent all kinds of problems wound up delaying the company from putting out any product at all. There are just so many ways for a startup to fail. We can also ask: how would we fix the problem if it does occur? Take your typical scalability bottleneck.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

In this scheme, all of the data related to a specific feature of a product are stored on the same machines. For example, Friendster was famously vertically partitioned at one time in its growth curve. This type of vertical partitioning sharding scheme wont work in most cases. Key-based partitioning. to store it.

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AUGUST 6, 2009

But unlike the majority of existing tube manufacturers in the valley who were making products for radios, Stanford Electronics Research Lab tube group had a special customer with very special needs – the U.S. More to Come These first microwave tubes were just the beginning of a flood of innovative products for the military.

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