Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Two others – that each team member give their input independently and that the results be objectively aggregated – are also key parts of building a meritocracy. Diversity is not the only requirement for making good group decisions. So why is demographic diversity important? So why is demographic diversity important? Expo SF (May.

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APRIL 14, 2009

First of all, it means that most aggregate measures of success, like total revenue, are not very useful. Go on an agile diet quickly. With a product development team that is not shipping, any agile methodology will surface major problems quickly. Labels: agile , customer development 15comments: Scott Shapiro said.

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JANUARY 18, 2010

My transition to Continuous Deployment Prior to adopting continuous deployment, I used to release software on a weekly schedule (come rain or shine) which I viewed as pretty agile, disciplined, and aggressive. Examples of things I monitor are the numbers of user activations, active users, and aggregate page hits to user galleries.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2009

But aggregated across many schools, there are thousands or tens of thousands of them. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? (a Expo SF (May.

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JUNE 5, 2009

It’s entirely possible for the startup to be a massive success without having large aggregate numbers, because the startup has succeeded in finding a passionate, but small, early adopter base that has tremendous per-customer behavior. Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets.

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AUGUST 24, 2009

I believe in the new world you describe, but I think you forget the role that the distributors play in aggregating content for a self-selecting consumer "type" The easiest place to see this in newspapers, where consumers normally buy a newspaper that shares their political viewpoint. [link] August 24, 2009 2:50 PM Quentin said.

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JANUARY 4, 2009

Using memcacheds multiget, which allows the fetching of many keys in parallel, I have written code to aggregate all the shard lookups for a given page and prefetch them, reducing the overhead even further. The mappings never change (unless you build a data migration tool, in which case they change rarely) and so are easy to cache.

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