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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

Of course this is not at all true of many profitable small businesses, but they are not what I mean by startups.) It should be even more important to the founders themselves, because it demonstrates that their business hypothesis is grounded in reality. They are busy too, but they are not creating value for the company.

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Out of the Crisis #3, Jen Pahlka and Raylene Yung on creating the U.S. Digital Response

Startup Lessons Learned

They co-founded it with former U.S. Jen is the founder and former executive director of Code for America. It was my mother's birthday and I was seeing her before I was supposed to go down to DC for the Code for America summit. But a lot of it is also just getting the data, aggregating it, being able to take action on it.

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

Using memcacheds multiget, which allows the fetching of many keys in parallel, I have written code to aggregate all the shard lookups for a given page and prefetch them, reducing the overhead even further. interesting post March 20, 2009 5:26 PM Small business web site design said. The actual directory itself is straightforward.