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ProductCamp Austin 2017 — a few lessons

Austin Startup

Upgrade From This Old Unnecessary Process David Hawks , CEO, Agile Velocity Main take-away — focus on discovery, not as much delivery. Most of the Agile world is in the perspective of delivery focus. After listening, below are lessons learned from four sessions of the 25 offered. User Stories Suck! Increase your Vocabulary 6.

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Advice On How To Make Your First Analytics Hire

View from Seed

As the former Head of Product at Blue Apron where I also built and led our Analytics & Data Science team (I know enough SQL to be dangerous), I have an intuitive sense for the “when” and “what” of this role. Many founders confuse the two as they both involve lots of numbers. Analytics vs. Finance?—?what’s

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What Does the Future Hold for Conversion Optimization?

ConversionXL

With agile development cycles and uncertain monetization models, they live and die by data and experimentation. Trends include: big data tools, data manipulation (SQL and alternatives), languages like Python, and deeper analyses (e.g., Image Source. For example, most people don’t understand what a p-value is.

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From 160 Hours to 10: A Tale of Agile Business Practices

Software By Rob

Agile Development, meet Agile Business. But the number one question you need to think about when going after this Agile Business approach: At what point is it worth spending the time to truly automate this? Im a serial web entrepreneur here to share what Ive learned in my 11 years as a self-funded startup founder.

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

If youre of the type of organization that doesnt use db access objects directly, but simply passes SQL statements through a central API, you can try this: consider the entity identifier as part of the statement itself. Nearly every SQL query I see has a join. E, How is WoW sharded? Ive noticed queues for instances lately. Expo SF (May.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

If someone comes to you with Ruby on Rails experience, do you assume they are ignorant of SQL? I learned C# and.NET (along with HTML/CSS/JS/SQL/etc) because that’s what they used. I’ll put my MVC/C#/SQL Server against your LAMP any day. March 25, 2011 at 2:27 pm. FYI It’s not April yet. Matt Sherman.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

I had a look at the source code, and it was chock-full of SQL injection vulnerabilities. Programmers, and certainly not the visionary founders, are the most qualified for that task. #6 Dont make cheap skate equity offers, with programmer getting equity share of first employee and salary of founder(nothing or next to nothing).