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How to Think Like a Hacker, Even if You Can’t Code

David Teten

The Lean Startup movement draws from this same philosophy. An example of documentation is the use of metadata, defined by Frank Dilorio’s guide as “data about data and the processes that support the creation of data and related output.” How would you modify this rough pseudo-algorithm for solving problems?

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

Occam's Razor

This thought was in my mind as I was reading Lean Analytics a new book by my friend Alistair Croll and his collaborator Benjamin Yoskovitz. In this post, we’ll look at each of the four steps in the Lean Analytics Cycle in more detail. In the Lean Startup world, this is called customer development. But it is not routine.

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Beyond the Buzzwords: Learn How to Develop Your Writing Voice

Duct Tape Marketing

And then you can lean into that part of your natural human communication skills. John (09:40): Hey, have you ever tried to hire freelancers and found that the quality of work was lacking or you got all the outsourcing excuses as to why the work didn't get done on time? Is this what the reader needs from you in this situation?

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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. Expo SF (May.

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21 Ways To Market Your Small Business On A Shoestring Budget

crowdSPRING Blog

You can’t walk a block in the downtown of most cities without seeing posters, signage, and other elements of guerrilla marketing plastered everywhere by “street teams” hired by big marketing firms. This kind of metadata can really boost clickthroughs to your site. It can be very effective (and low-cost) if done well.

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21 Ways To Market Your Small Business On A Shoestring Budget

crowdSPRING Blog

You can’t walk a block in the downtown of most cities without seeing posters, signage, and other elements of guerrilla marketing plastered everywhere by “street teams” hired by big marketing firms. This kind of metadata can really boost clickthroughs to your site. It can be very effective (and low-cost) if done well.

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Preparing Websites For The Unexpected | Smashing Mobile

mobile.smashingmagazine.com

A mobile-optimized structure, however, leans towards a “taller” arrangement in addition to hierarchies. Consider variations of metadata. To hire people to crop pictures for customers who will not know they are dissatisfied? But each page stands alone. Can it be pasted into Microsoft Word, printed and faxed?

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