Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

And once you have a relationship with an author, musician, or journalist, it will be quite easy for them to offer new products and services – and for you to give them feedback that helps them shape ever more interesting (and ever more profitable) offerings. There are too many products clamoring for attention. Is that a lot?

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APRIL 2, 2009

Think about the baseball Steroid scandal, Tour de France doping scandal, housing bubble, etc.) Shipping 8 months early, with only half a product! Don’t confuse or rationalize “relentless and focused&# with cheating. Shortcuts are easy. But besides being morally wrong, in the end they come back to bite you big time.

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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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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

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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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Navigating this crisis is not about cutting back: it’s about taking advantage of the opportunities while not leaning too far over your ski tips to avoid a catastrophic fall. In two weeks, Doctolib made the product self-serve and extensively deployed the solution, which you can hear more about in the short video below. million today.

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