Startup Lessons Learned
MARCH 16, 2009
This is a fairly simple approach to creating a weighting system using an Opportunity Algorithm. The algorithm is Importance + max(Importance - Satisfaction, 0) = Opportunity. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 15, 2008
You just constantly test little micro-changes and follow a hill-climbing algorithm to build your product. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Ha.
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Startup Lessons Learned
JULY 29, 2009
The design failure meant that there was constant thrashing as the servers struggled to provision capacity according to the “elegant&# algorithm we’d designed. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.
Startup Lessons Learned
NOVEMBER 29, 2008
For the past couple of years Ive used a question that I once was asked in an interview, in which you have the candidate produce an algorithm for drawing a circle on a pixel grid. As they optimize their solution, they eventually wind up deriving Bresenhams circle algorithm. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.
Startup Lessons Learned
NOVEMBER 13, 2008
Because five whys kept turning up a few key metrics that were hard to set static thresholds for, we even had a dynamic prediction algorithm that would make forecasts based on past data, and fire alerts if the metric ever went out of its normal bounds. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?
Startup Lessons Learned
JANUARY 4, 2009
More common is to use a one-way hashing algorithm to map the data to be accessed to one of the shards that store it. Theres no complex algorithm to go wrong, just a simple lookup table. Of course, you could use URL-based sharding to "wrap" a CH algorithm (or any hashing scheme you wanted).
Startup Lessons Learned
APRIL 7, 2010
Our job as entrepreneurs is to invent the future, and any optimization technique – including split-testing, many design techniques, or even usability testing – can lead us astray. Those of us with a computer science background call it the hill-climbing algorithm. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.
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