Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Wish I could figure out how to apply it to the average data warehousing project which has a single shareed database right at the heart of the entire solution. my data warehouse project has a "single shared database" in it too (the warehouse), and plenty of databases too (post-processing stages, marts).

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their product development process. Good luck, engineering manager. It was painful for a lot of people.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

From premium paid subscription databases to free tools showcasing new startups and startup maps, The Ultimate Startup Intelligence Tools List is guaranteed to help you get your research done. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Firebase : Are all your developers front-end engineers? Codeacademy. Steve Blank.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Observe At the end of each day, wed laboriously enter data, updating the campaigns voter database with information about every voter contact we accomplished that day. That voter database was accessible to staff at every level of the campaign. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

PHP has always scored well on this count, with lots of support for database drivers, URL parsing, HTTP fetching, regular expressions - you name it. Those implement useful design patterns such as MVC, database gateway and other abstractions which make maintainability much easier. Honestly, the PEAR database is nothing compared to CPAN.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

Sometimes, a great hacker has the potential to grow into the CTO of a company, and in those cases all you need is an outside mentor who can work with them to develop those skills. At the end of the day, the product development team of a startup (large or small) is a service organization. Does this sound familiar?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 19, 2009

They maintain a huge database of passive candidates, by offering to pay them when they interview. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Given that most recruiting channels are pay-for-performance, its usually cheaper, too, because it has a lower conversion rate.

Lean 140

Lean Hiring San Francisco Continuous Deployment 140

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 19, 2009

But instead of spending the time and money to develop products on spec, TPGTEX creates mocked-up webpages that list the features of a potential new product -- such as a system for making radio-frequency identification, or RFID, labels -- along with its price. Read the rest. For that, release early, release often will suffice.

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San Francisco Product Lean Continuous Deployment 137

www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

" => I have not bothered to put up a landing page, survey to test customer demand, or done any customer development whatsoever. "Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?" A lot of projects are just display data, read data from database, save data.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 1, 2009

You mentioned as many as 50 deployments a day to production after successful local continuous integration. With so many deployments how do you deal with database schema changes and data conversion for these schema changes? The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 22, 2008

Just dump the results in a database as you get them, and let your reports calculate scores in real-time. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? What is customer development? No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

.Net 158

.Net Operations San Francisco Lean 158

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

schools have alumni databases that usually show what folks majored in and what they’re doing now – write them for advice or ask them if they know anyone interested in a particular idea you’re working on. [link] Seth Sternberg hey ian – finding a great team’s really really hard. Love the guest post TechCrunch!

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