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So you say you want to be a Product Manager …?

Austin Startup

Product managers have the exciting responsibility of establishing the goals, roadmap and tracking metrics of their product (among many other duties), and also the less-glamorous but equally-important task of taking care of all the blocking and tackling required?—?from there is much value in learning SQL and either Python or R.

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Enhancing SaaS Business Growth via Incremental Improvements

The Startup Magazine

Effectively implementing the model requires an analysis of the customer lifecycle taking into consideration various metrics. It then applies four metrics to assess the impact of every step on performance. Creating Sales Qualified Leads and handing them over to the sales team (S3 – SQL). Putting Theory into Practice. Conversion.

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

If youre of the type of organization that doesnt use db access objects directly, but simply passes SQL statements through a central API, you can try this: consider the entity identifier as part of the statement itself. Nearly every SQL query I see has a join. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. using replicas?

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

If someone comes to you with Ruby on Rails experience, do you assume they are ignorant of SQL? I learned C# and.NET (along with HTML/CSS/JS/SQL/etc) because that’s what they used. I’ll put my MVC/C#/SQL Server against your LAMP any day. March 25, 2011 at 2:27 pm. FYI It’s not April yet. Matt Sherman.

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Empowering Analysis Ninjas? 12 Signs To Identify A Data Driven Culture

Occam's Razor

They are generic mash-ups that tailor to almost no one's needs, and more often than not contain awful things like nine not-really-thought out metrics for one dimension in a report. the instinctive response of the Squirrels is to go grab the most obvious metrics and start partying. " Kisses. Angels singing! Time on Site!

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Part 3- Lean Cust. Steve Blank’s Lean Startup Resources. Lean Startup Circle â?? Startup Metrics for Pirates â?? SaaS Metrics Tutorial â?? SQL database hosting from browser.Python/Javascript APIs. Lean project management.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

AgileZen – project management visually see and interact with your work Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development Kanban Pad – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.