David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

The extreme example of this are algorithmic investors in the public markets, who design algorithms which trade on the designer’s behalf, as opposed to making trading decisions directly. High-frequency trading, algorithmic by its nature, is estimated to account for at least 50% of US equity markets trading volume. .

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

Use tools that use an algorithmic approach: Feng-GUI. Talk to your customers or prospects. You have only 10 customers? No customers at all? If you’re starting out, what you need is customer development, not conversion optimization. So what’s the alternative? LookTracker. No problem!

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

I had the opportunity to pioneer this approach to funnel analysis at IMVU, where it became a core part of our customer development process. To promote this metrics discipline, we would present the full funnel to our board (and advisers) at the end of every development cycle. This is not what I have in mind.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 9, 2016

Algorithmic computer music has been around for decades but we think we’ve figured out a novel way to approach the solution based on our experiences as film composers. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show. ” Overwhelmingly the response was like, “Yes. Can we have it yesterday.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 16, 2016

We developed a simple algorithm for pricing the textbooks, predicting when a price would fluctuate, when a book would go out of print, that kind of thing. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show. Over time it became an online book rental platform serving Ohio.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 3, 2009

Worries from the garage One of the worries I hear from entrepreneurs (not just my students) is that Customer Development means getting out of the building and sharing what you are working on. Posted on December 3, 2009 by steveblank In my 21 years of startups I’ve had my ideas “stolen” twice. Once it almost mattered.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Tune in Thursday at 1 pm PT, 4 pm ET on Sirius XM Channel 111 Filed under: Customer Development. Every aspect of parking you could possibly imagine. I was ready to get carried out on a stretcher- . Steve : He became a domain expert? Dave : Yes he did.

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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. Are the engineers in the customer development team allowed to push quick and dirty "prototypes" to production? Eric, great post.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2009

And you’d like me to do my talk on Customer Development and startups?” “No, we’re the other CIA.” Reply George John , on April 10, 2009 at 12:58 pm Said: The story about bats and moths has an interesting second chapter that I learned from Rajeev Motwani at Stanford 10 years ago in a Randomized Algorithms course.

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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. What is customer development?

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 7, 2010

Those of us with a computer science background call it the hill-climbing algorithm. For more on how to figure out which question applies in which context, see Business ecology and the four customer currencies.) And therein lies the most common source of confusion about whether startups should listen to customers.

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viniciusvacanti.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Your service has to be secure, it has to scale immediately, you need PhD’s to help you develop algorithms and you’re probably applying for a few patents. Tech startups create real value in one of three ways: ( note: for example companies, I’m referring to their initial prototypes ): Technology Innovation.

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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).

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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?

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Here are four startup ideas: a better search algorithm for the semantic web a voice conferencing system that allows multiple concurrent discussions a community for software developers to share revenue a home device that offers multi-room MP3 streaming Now, be honest. Impossible to apply general advice like this to every situation.

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grasshopperherder.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

There no reason to disclose your secret google busting search algorithm on the first date. (So thanks for calling me on that.) I think the only misunderstanding here is the scope of that first conversation. Robert Scoble’s Severed Head, Truthiness, and the Surrender Chicken Why is Cyber Squatter a Bad Word?

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2008

Youll need bundles, promotions, category and segment managers, and algorithms for upsell, cross-sell, and conversion optimization. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? In other words, a marketing department. You can use these three questions to analyze existing businesses.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 30, 2009

Build a world-class technology platform, with patent-pending algorithms and the ability to scale to millions of simultaneous users. I myself didnt understand it until I had the opportunity to view that failure through the lens of the customer development theory. Insist on high levels of usability, UI design, and polish.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

These days, successful programming is as much about processing data as creating algorithms. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Even though PHPs syntax is an inelegant beast, the overall platform is impressively readable. Incoherent (but huge) standard library.

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