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The Customer Development Manifesto: The Startup Death Spiral (part.

Steve Blank

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. Three to six months after first customer ship, if Sales starts missing its numbers, the board gets concerned.

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The Rise Of Cloud Computing

YoungUpstarts

According to respondents already offering hosted cloud services, 42 per cent expected to see growth from the broader IT sector, 39 per cent from financial services and 30 per cent from retail customers. This migration to the cloud helps to meet their operational needs, as well as to reduce costs and increase agility and efficiency.

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The cloud landscape described, categorized, and compared

www.theenterprisearchitect.eu

The Enterprise Architect building an Agile Enterprise Home MDD PaaS Startup Presentations About The cloud landscape described, categorized, and compared October 12, 2013 Johan Den Haan 10 comments “I work for a PaaS company” I answered him. This means that more advanced features like caching, snapshotting, high availability, etc.

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Lessons Learned: Continuous deployment and continuous learning

Startup Lessons Learned

The longer you wait to find out about the problem, the more likely it is to have fallen out of the human-memory cache. Heck, thats what it says right there in the agile manifesto. This was an effective approach to discovering a business by using a sequence of product prototypes to get early customer feedback. But it worked.

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Tips for the first VC Meeting

BeyondVC

Startups require entrepreneurs to be agile and adept to respond to quickly changing market needs. Have a well-honed elevator pitch: If you can’t explain to me succinctly what your product does, what problem it solves, and how you will make money then I wonder how you will explain it to your customers.

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

This is true of most web application servers, caches like memcached, and all of the network infrastructure that connects them. Imagine you want to store data about customers, each of whom has "last name" field in your database. Customer data is normally partitioned according to customer id. Easy to understand.

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So You're Going To Start A Huge New Web Project

css-tricks.com

At the outset of a project is a perfect opportunity to build/choose/customize a CMS that works for you. Likely you are caching assets, so youll need to break that cache on assets that change and not break it on assets that dont. How is the customer support at your hosting provider? Need a guide? Are you load balancing?

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