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Lousy Products Might Break Your Bones – But A Name Will Seldom Hurt You

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As noted in Beware The Consultant , such pay-for-hire charlatans barter their time for your money – the more time they trade with you, the more of your money they take. About Who the Heck is Uncle Saul? infoChachkie. When selecting your company and product names, consider the following: Uniquely Familiar. Intuitive URL. Sans Acronyms.

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, January 4, 2009 Sharding for startups The most important aspect of a scalable web architecture is data partitioning. Most components in a modern data center are completely stateless, meaning they just do batches of work that is handed to them, but dont store any data long-term. Key-based partitioning.

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Small Business and Startups: The Trends for 2014 (Pt II)

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25% of a marketer’s capacity is a huge investment by any measure and outsourcing the effort starts to look attractive to many managers and many have hired outside consultants to help. Beware, however, a loss of control over messaging, increased costs, and poor integration with your other marketing efforts. Outsourcing social media.

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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 12, 2009 Why PHP won When I first learned to program on the web, Perl + CGI was the dominant platform. But by the time I was building my first websites for commercial use , PHP had taken over. Through my platform choices, I have forced many people to learn PHP and to work with it on a regular basis.

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