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The Customer Development Manifesto: The Startup Death Spiral (part.

Steve Blank

Finally, I’ll write about how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. Without the revenue to match its expenses, the company is in now danger of running out of money.

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Lessons Learned: Continuous deployment and continuous learning

Startup Lessons Learned

The longer you wait to find out about the problem, the more likely it is to have fallen out of the human-memory cache. That leads to a seemingly-obvious question: what is progress in software development? Heck, thats what it says right there in the agile manifesto. But, unfortunately, startups cant afford to adopt that standard.

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

This is true of most web application servers, caches like memcached, and all of the network infrastructure that connects them. For example, you might notice that caching gets a lot easier if you have good metadat about which queries are associated with the same entity. This is a good summary and very useful data layer scaling approach.

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Lessons Learned: Great open source scalability tools from Danga

Startup Lessons Learned

Three of my favorite: memcached - an in-memory object caching system. 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? MogileFS - "Distributed (meta) file system. .

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Native App vs. Web App: Which Is Better for Mobile Commerce?

mashable.com

May 23, 2011 by Christina Warren 20 Share on Tumblr email share Share on Tumblr email share The Mobile App Trends Series is supported by Sourcebits , a leading product developer for mobile platforms. Sourcebits offers design and development services for iOS, Android, Mobile and Web platforms.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

pgbouncer (Lightweight connection pooler for PostgreSQL, from the developers of Skype). Varnish Cache (reverse proxy). Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. Great for visualizing work of product development. Agile project management. agile product management.

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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

Startup Lessons Learned

The next time you needed to handle that page, you could take advantage of caching for excellent performance. There are also solutions to performance issues resulting from abstraction and runtime compilation (check out op-code caches such as APC). This sounds like a good trade-off, but it turned out to be a classic sub-optimization.

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