Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

First of all, it means that most aggregate measures of success, like total revenue, are not very useful. (Steve calls this just Customer Validation , but I like to emphasize the learning aspect, so I accept a far more awkward phrase.) This unit of progress is remarkable in several ways. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

I believe in the new world you describe, but I think you forget the role that the distributors play in aggregating content for a self-selecting consumer "type" The easiest place to see this in newspapers, where consumers normally buy a newspaper that shares their political viewpoint. [link] August 24, 2009 2:50 PM Quentin said.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2015

I freaking hated trying to find cabs in SF, NY, Philly, DC and everywhere else I frequently travel. MediaREDEF – In a world of aggregators and social sharing tools I love the hand-crafted, mixtape nature of MediaREDEF. I lamented that this last mile was the least safe of my journey. No need to fight over the bill.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 16, 2010

Designed for large businesses, the channels let a company share several types of documents, brand the channel with their own design elements, and then include display advertising, contest promotions, blog aggregation, social media integration and metrics reporting. The idea seemed to SlideShare to be a natural direction.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Of the 8 he accepted, 4 had blossomed into serious ventures by the end of the summer: Loopt , a social-mapping ser vice, now with 4 million users; Reddit, a user-aggregated news site acquired by Condé Nast in 2006; TextPayMe, a mobile payment service bought by Amazon in 2006; and Kiko, thwarted by Google.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

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. I have to admit with a great deal of shame, that my daughter begged me not to go on the trip. A lot of it is similar.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

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. Diversity is not the only requirement for making good group decisions. So why is demographic diversity important? So why is demographic diversity important?

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Pascal's View

JUNE 23, 2008

With my new 11.400kW DC (STC) 9,672kW AC(CEC) solar power system — yes, you must convert from DC to AC — I will immediately save almost $4,000 in utility bills in Year 1, which also means an 85% reduction in my electricity bill. Why am I doing this? Very simple– it’s a win/win. The SolarLease vs. Buy Option.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 2, 2020

So we set out to solve them and help grow successful food businesses in DC. In addition to tutoring for the times when they may need more hands-on help, I made it a part of my company’s mission to create and aggregate resources for students. And we realized that our problem was not a unique problem.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 30, 2008

In order to get optimal results from a group-based effort, you need three things: diversity, Independence , and an objective method for aggregating results. Aggregate results carefully. Let me briefly summarize the part of the book I find most helpful (leaving a few out, which arent germane to todays topic). Not all crowds are wise.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

In an ecosystem, each participant acts according to its own imperatives, but these selfish actions have an aggregate effect. In an ecosystem, each participant acts according to its own imperatives, but these selfish actions have an aggregate effect. Some ecosystems are stable, others malign, and others grow and prosper.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

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. The mappings never change (unless you build a data migration tool, in which case they change rarely) and so are easy to cache.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

More on that here: DC-DR-DA: A Simple Framework For Smarter Decisions.). We are all aware that the best companies in the world have an optimal DC-DR-DA allocation when it comes to time/money/people: 15%-20%-65%. And because all data in aggregate is crap , segmented trends are even better! All well and good.

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Agile VC

JUNE 12, 2012

They try to position themselves as platforms, while they are only building a smaller feature on top of an existing, extremely powerful, extremely distributed platform run by big companies, with big lawyers and big friends in DC. The product seemingly never evolved to what it could have been.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 7, 2014

11: Close to zero aggregated analysis exists, everything's segmented. #10: 8: Your Team's DC, DR, DA effort allocation is 15%-20%-65%. #7: 11: Close to zero aggregated analysis exists, everything's segmented. All data in aggregate is crap. 8: Your Team's DC, DR, DA effort allocation is 15%-20%-65%.

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