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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

First of all, it means that most aggregate measures of success, like total revenue, are not very useful. extraneous SHIMMER reference spotted; you are dating yourself eric. Now that Im in a web based company Im finding a difficult match the framework, culturally. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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Lean startup tools for Rails apps

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This tool adds a lot of context to bug discussions, because nonprogrammers can reference the exact Hoptoad URL containing all of the information a programmer needs to fix a bug (including backtraces). Because it has an RSS feed, one could also use "Unresolved Hoptoad Errors" as a metric influencing the continuous deployment system.

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Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business)

Startup Lessons Learned

Two others – that each team member give their input independently and that the results be objectively aggregated – are also key parts of building a meritocracy. To be clear, though, this diversity refers only to diversity of opinion, not necessarily to demographic diversity. So why is demographic diversity important?

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Assessing fit with the Wisdom of Crowds

Startup Lessons Learned

In order to get optimal results from a group-based effort, you need three things: diversity, Independence , and an objective method for aggregating results. They work steady hours, but not for lack of drive; their references say they have exceptional output. Aggregate results carefully. Not all crowds are wise. cause disaster.

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, January 4, 2009 Sharding for startups The most important aspect of a scalable web architecture is data partitioning. This is true of most web application servers, caches like memcached, and all of the network infrastructure that connects them. what is your company web site or email address?