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Stock Photos vs. Real Photos: Does It Matter?

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Here’s the problem: Every other poor schmuck in every other vertical has used the exact…same…photograph. Meet the “Everywhere Girl” Back in 1996, Jennifer Anderson posed for a stock photo shoot shortly after graduating college. It was taken with a point-and-shoot camera that cost a couple hundred bucks.

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Stock Photography vs. Real Photos: Can’t We Use Both?

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Here’s the problem: Every other poor schmuck in every other vertical has used the Exact. Back in 1996, Jennifer Anderson posed for a stock photo shoot shortly after graduating college. Larger sweeps designed for photographing people can be purchased for less than $50 & a whole basic studio setup kid only costs $225.

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BUZZ Doesn’t Equal BUY: Three Factors To Look For When Seeking Stocks With Long-Term Value

YoungUpstarts

A Berkshire Hathaway Chairman’s Letter from 1996 underlines that point. Masterful execution makes up one of the triangle’s two vertical sides. (I If you cut 1 percent in cost or time, that’s not much. They use lean teams. Great strategy makes up the base of the triangle. I call this the “hard edge.”).

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Customer Development Manifesto: Market Type (part 4) « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

In future posts I’ll describe how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. Palm in a New Market What makes this example really interesting is this: rewind the story 4 years earlier to 1996.

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

For example, Friendster was famously vertically partitioned at one time in its growth curve. This has two major drawbacks: the central directory can become a single point of failure, and there is a performance cost for having to consult the directory ever time you want to access data anywhere in the cluster. Key-based partitioning.