Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

In mid-March, as the coronavirus was sweeping through Asia and Europe, Tomas Pueyo published a piece on Medium titled "The Hammer and the Dance: What the Next 18 Months Can Look Like if Leaders Buy Us Time." Not every one of my friends, but lots of my friends every day when I posted something engaged in debate, thanked me for the analysis.

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techblog.netflix.com

NOVEMBER 26, 2011

TL;DR The rest of this post is the details of what we ran and how it worked, so that other performance teams working with Cassandra on AWS can leverage our work and replicate and extend our results. The Cassandra commit log flushes to disk with an fsync call every 10 seconds by default. This changes with Cassandra 1.0,

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 21, 2014

That’s why you need to be simultaneously feeding your growth engine , while monitoring churn and your other startup metrics. I have seen this happen at a few startups I’ve worked with by expanding revenue from the current product, plus up-sell and cross-sell opportunities , but that will be a future post. Now to the case studies….

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Save Asia for post-IPO Single instance, multi-tenant, single datacenter - Have only one version of the code in production. Posted by Philippe Botteri. Save Asia for post-IPO. Your default position should be to consider Europe as your pre-IPO growth story, and Asia only after you’re a high-flying public company.

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online.wsj.com

MARCH 4, 2013

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Monday edit : Skip my post and read this one instead. Saturday edit : Wow, this post has hit quite a nerve. Anyway, I was going to leave all this to blow over before making any comments in a follow-up post next Friday. Sunday edit : Incredible that this post is still going strong, on a weekend no less. Very good post.

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