Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

Finally, I’ll write about 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. Part 4 of the Customer Development Manifesto to follow.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

The longer you wait to find out about the problem, the more likely it is to have fallen out of the human-memory cache. That leads to a seemingly-obvious question: what is progress in software development? Heck, thats what it says right there in the agile manifesto. But, unfortunately, startups cant afford to adopt that standard.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 5, 2008

Three of my favorite: memcached - an in-memory object caching system. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you? No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

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JANUARY 4, 2009

This is true of most web application servers, caches like memcached, and all of the network infrastructure that connects them. For example, you might notice that caching gets a lot easier if you have good metadat about which queries are associated with the same entity. This is a good summary and very useful data layer scaling approach.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

The next time you needed to handle that page, you could take advantage of caching for excellent performance. There are also solutions to performance issues resulting from abstraction and runtime compilation (check out op-code caches such as APC). The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. pgbouncer (Lightweight connection pooler for PostgreSQL, from the developers of Skype). Varnish Cache (reverse proxy). Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. Great for visualizing work of product development. Agile eLearning.

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