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Stock Photos vs. Real Photos: Does It Matter?

ConversionXL

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. Theory applies to positive and negative experiences.

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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. I normally recommend you just store this directory on your master database, but you could use a standalone vertical shard (or even a key-based partition!) This type of vertical partitioning sharding scheme wont work in most cases.

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

ConversionXL

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. (“See, looks like Stock wasn’t so bad after all, was it Mr. Designer?”). Photograph. Meet The Everywhere Girl.

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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 They use lean teams. He knows the stock will rise eventually because he buys only stocks of companies built for enduring success. Great strategy makes up the base of the triangle.

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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.