Venture Chronicles

JUNE 8, 2010

The core customer community offerings take over where forums and wikis stop, and in the case of forums I can’t imagine a traditional product category more primed to be wiped out than this one. The service and support vertical is about $3b a year just in the U.S.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

I have a question though- do you think that most content metrics (the ebook example you mentioned) should be developed by the "author" to target their specific data, or do you think there are opportunities for a new business vertical that give these tools directly to the creator. August 24, 2009 2:17 PM Norbert Mocsnik said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2009

It could be fixed by refactoring the code itself, or by partitioning the data horizontally or vertically, or by adding additional capacity at the point of the bottleneck, or by shaping end-user demand, or even by removing the feature itself. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

For example, Friendster was famously vertically partitioned at one time in its growth curve. I normally recommend you just store this directory on your master database, but you could use a standalone vertical shard (or even a key-based partition!) This type of vertical partitioning sharding scheme wont work in most cases.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

And if you did make one that was kind of like these three, in that vertical, you’d be awesome. Or those products are kick ass, but if you look at the building management space maybe they have the same basic kind of things, their products are still stuck in Windows 98. No reason to just copy a market that’s already done.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Github - Free public repositories, collaborator management, issue tracking, wikis, downloads, code review, graphs Pivotal Tracker – Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams.

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