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Watching Larry Ellison become Larry Ellison — The DNA of a Winner

Steve Blank

The choice of the SQL a way to ask questions (queries) in an easy-to-understand language. Pragmatic and Lean. Portability (databases had previously been shackled to the specific machines they ran on). Being distributed/network ready (even though Ethernet was just barely coming into use in the enterprise). What a gift!

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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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Enhancing SaaS Business Growth via Incremental Improvements

The Startup Magazine

Based on Jacco Van Der Kooij’s book The SaaS Sales Method: Sales As a Science , Lean-Case enhanced its metric model and put this method a SaaS business model – how to double revenues with incremental steps into practice.It Creating Sales Qualified Leads and handing them over to the sales team (S3 – SQL). Putting Theory into Practice.

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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.

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Predictive Analytics in 2018: What’s Possible, Who’s Doing It, and How

ConversionXL

The other half have a mix of data sources, which inevitably include an offshore SQL database (or ten) managed by an external vendor whom no one can track down. Leaning on natural language processing and predictive analytics, the program analyzed conversations, forecasted trends, and trained more than 13,000 volunteers. The results?

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

Austin Startup

there is much value in learning SQL and either Python or R. I got to know many of the people who endorsed me for this role and others through Techstars’ Startup Weekend , 3 Day Startup , and Lean Startup Machine events, as well as at conferences I made the effort to attend annually such as SXSW , LAUNCH and 500 Startups’ unSexy Conference.

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Fake it Til You (Have To) Make it

Austin Startup

It is possible that manually on-boarding users directly through SQL or Postman only takes you two minutes whereas copying and pasting stats from a database into a reporting table or email takes you an hour.

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