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The Lean Analytics Cycle: Metrics > Hypothesis > Experiment > Act

Occam's Razor

That’s because they require you to have a deep understanding of your customers. In the Lean Startup world, this is called customer development. Maybe they analyzed the metadata from pictures and found that there was a strong correlation between properties that rented often and expensive camera models. But they are.

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

Ive done this before using a structured comment added to each SQL statement, like this: /*entity customer://1234 */ SELECT name FROM customer WHERE id = 1234 At the expense of some additional parsing overhead in your data-access layer, you get additional metadata associated with every query in your application.

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Startup Resources

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Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. s easier to use/develop with. Rovi : Need Metadata for music/movie/actors, etc.? Customer Development. Read post Why Learning should be your top 2013 new year’s resolution  for a full list. Codeacademy. Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank. SW Courses.