Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

I have a question though- do you think that most content metrics (the ebook example you mentioned) should be developed by the "author" to target their specific data, or do you think there are opportunities for a new business vertical that give these tools directly to the creator. August 24, 2009 2:17 PM Norbert Mocsnik said.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

Martin , on June 29, 2009 at 8:26 am Said: “Eighty percent of success is showing up.&# – Woody Allen A version of your story about showing up for a job that didn’t exist happened to me when I reported for work at a lab in eastern Washington state years ago. Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA. Reply Create.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

The “customers” in Washington had never seen anything like it. Forty years before Agile Development methodologies became popular, ESL had analysts from its &# customer&# sitting side-by-side with ESL engineers designing new equipment together. Up until ESL, radio and radar signals had always been received by analog receivers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2009

In other words, a principled way to combine agility with stability. In other words, you can always invest in process, batch size reduction, and agility as an alternative to preventing a specific problem. In other words, a principled way to combine agility with stability. Many problems are catastrophic only if allowed to fester.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

For example, Friendster was famously vertically partitioned at one time in its growth curve. I normally recommend you just store this directory on your master database, but you could use a standalone vertical shard (or even a key-based partition!) This type of vertical partitioning sharding scheme wont work in most cases.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2009

It reminded me about the adage, “when you’re up to your neck in alligators, the last thing you remember is that you were supposed to drain the swamp.&# Memo to Washington – weren’t we were to be the country innovating here? with the auto bailout. was somewhat incomprehensible at first to the Energy and EPA team.

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