Lightspeed Venture Partners

OCTOBER 3, 2013

We have seen the rise of the cloud, the shift away from PCs to new mobile computing platforms, and the emergence of Big Data and Analytics as a core enabler of business agility. To name a few: Ravi Ithal was an early engineer at Palo Alto Networks (PANW), where he architected their database and analytics systems.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

When I first encountered agile software techniques, in the form of extreme programming , I thought I had found the answer. I explained it to people this way: agile lets you make the trade-offs visible to whole company, so that they can make informed choices. Even worse, agile wasnt really helping me ship higher quality software.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

Data storage is becoming a specialized function, delegated most often to relational databases. If you are storing all of your data in a relational database, and the load on that database exceeds its capacity, there is no automatic solution that allows you to simply add more hardware and scale up.

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Software By Rob

APRIL 7, 2010

The more we thought about it we realized the benefits to keeping it a single-tenant application: the ease of migrating from our hosted version to a downloaded version, and keeping each customer’s data separated in its own database to name two. Agile Development, meet Agile Business. So we tossed it.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

I know plenty of people who prefer more advanced source control system, but my belief is that many agile practices diminish the importance of advanced features like branching. Do you have a bug database? Its not that the idea behind them is wrong, but I think agile team-building practices make scheduling per se much less important.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

If youre trying to design an architecture to maximize agility, how can that work if some people are working in TDD and others not? Massive proprietary databases? But along the way, something strange happened. It became harder and harder to separate how the software is built from how the software is structured. I dont think so.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 15, 2017

Agile businesses have moved to the cloud because of its scalability, efficiency and reliability, amongst other benefits. honeypots”) are inserted into an organization’s systems or databases. Deception Technology: These camouflaged malware traps (a.k.a

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BeyondVC

APRIL 4, 2018

What Salesforce clearly understands is that in the world of enterprise, integration becomes king as organizations constantly look to get disparate applications, databases and other systems to talk to each other. Every digital transformation starts and ends with the customer, Salesforce CEO Marc Beniof f said in a statement.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 23, 2018

Cloud based solutions provide an agile computing environment, which can be adapted to suit the needs of startups in the hospitality industry during peak business periods or off periods. With the cloud, students can access the information they need all in one place and teachers can distribute assignments with greater ease. Production industry.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 8, 2013

the ideal, IT Operations is able to create an environment (that is, everything except for the application code: databases, operating system, networking, virtualization layer, etc.) Enforce a policy that the code and environment are tested together, even at the earliest stages of the project.In with one step. puppet, chef, etc.)Furthermore,

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Spencer Fry

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Agile Web Development with Rails by DHH 3.5/5. With most of Learn Ruby the Hard Way under my belt, I dove into David Heinemeier Hansson 's book, Agile Web Development with Rails. This exercise packs in so many different aspects of Ruby on Rails and programming (database theory, unit testing, security, AJAX, etc.)

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BeyondVC

APRIL 4, 2018

What Salesforce clearly understands is that in the world of enterprise, integration becomes king as organizations constantly look to get disparate applications, databases and other systems to talk to each other. Every digital transformation starts and ends with the customer,” Salesforce CEO Marc Beniof f said in a statement.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 5, 2008

For tips on how to integrate it into your database and application layers, you can see the tail-end of my JIT Scalability talk. Youll learn how they pioneered the use of a lot of open source tools at new levels of scale, and even created quite a few more, that are essential scaling aids. MogileFS - "Distributed (meta) file system.

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Up and Running

APRIL 18, 2017

Xerox, Polaroid, Blockbuster, and other market leaders lost to smaller, more agile competitors because the market leaders assumed that they would dominate forever. Many processes are already established and it’s more difficult to be agile. We were wrong. Markets and businesses always evolve. Find a way to compete with yourself.

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Transformify

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Scrum, Agile, Product Management. Data Warehousing, Database Administration, Game Development, Git, Google Maps API, HTML, HTML5, Internet Security, Javascript, jQuery / Prototype, Magento, Mobile App Testing. Scrum, Agile, Problem Analysis, Business Catalyst, Business Analytics. Project/ Product Management.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

In school I was being pounded day and night with anything that has to do with agile software development. When I entered the company, I realized that there were no process and I quickly applied what I know about agile software development. I am basically a one-man shop. Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets.

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bijoor.me

MARCH 26, 2014

Agile Development. Posted in: Affordable Technology , Agile Development , Big Data , Business Analytics & Intelligence , Cloud Computing , Information & knowledge management , Technology , Workflow Management. Agile Development (6). Engagement Tracking. Conversation Management. Employee Engagement. B2B Sales Process.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 20, 2017

Do you have a bug database? Do you have a bug database? Without a doubt, some of my changes draw from Agile methodologies (a good idea, but a terrible religion). Is your source control effective for the disconnected programmer? Can you make a build in one step? Do you build, test, and deploy (somewhere) on every commit?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 19, 2009

They maintain a huge database of passive candidates, by offering to pay them when they interview. 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? Expo SF (May.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 5, 2021

This means platforms, databases, and the actions that drive them working to serve each other. monthly email newsletter to entire subscriber list on X day each month) Dynamic workflows are more agile and flexible. How to identify apps and tools that would benefit from workflow automation.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 23, 2017

Upgrade From This Old Unnecessary Process David Hawks , CEO, Agile Velocity Main take-away — focus on discovery, not as much delivery. Most of the Agile world is in the perspective of delivery focus. Know your Databases 7. After listening, below are lessons learned from four sessions of the 25 offered. User Stories Suck!

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TechEmpower

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Even if certain categories aren't predefined in the database, users still receive relevant product suggestions. For instance, if a user searches for "low carb options," even though "low carb" might not be a category saved in the database, the LLM can still match and suggest "keto" products, understanding the user's intent.

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www.theenterprisearchitect.eu

MARCH 26, 2014

The Enterprise Architect building an Agile Enterprise Home MDD PaaS Startup Presentations About The cloud landscape described, categorized, and compared October 12, 2013 Johan Den Haan 10 comments “I work for a PaaS company” I answered him. t a surprise that we talk about dbPaaS (database Platform-as-a-Service) here.

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css-tricks.com

JANUARY 2, 2013

Do not forget the database and software design. And all too often in an agile approach, tweaks are made for business and dev requirements. What’s the best way to account for a CMS database in your version control for a big web project? There are proven development methodologies out there like Lean, Agile, Waterfall.

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semanticuniverse.com

MARCH 9, 2010

Among techies, the Semantic Web bears some similarity to a number of common technologies, including relational databases, XML, and Object-Oriented design. For people with a background in relational databases, this innovation lets them "think outside the table." Relational databases have SQL. Nevertheless, there is a common "aha!"

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

It will be important that your CTO can execute on big projects, too, hacking away to build an amazing product that is agile. From a technical standpoint, in addition to being a skilled programmer, the CTO should have a background in architecture and database design. Danny Wong , Blank Label Group, Inc. Experience with Startups!

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ConversionXL

MAY 22, 2017

Siebel took off the most important features from the Database Marketing Systems and combined them with contact management solutions software. SaaS stacks give companies the agility they need to move fast, but often they are the cause of a huge data fragmentation. Et voilà: the first CRM.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 1, 2020

Optimizing inventory is one of the keys to making sure that a business is both agile and profitable. Make Sure Your Database is Strong. Inventory needs to be tracked and stored carefully, and a company should not stock more inventory than it needs at any given time.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

If you want to do churn analysis, as defined above, then you don't want GA as much as you want your back-end ERP / "Orders" database that has your customer history, and just a couple of acquisition signals (campaign and source come to mind). My friend Matthew Tod called it Customer Analytics.

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andrewchenblog.com

MARCH 10, 2010

This leads to decisions like, “We don’t have time to reconcile these two databases, so we’ll write some glue code that keeps them synchronized for now and reconcile them after we ship.&# Or “We have some code written by a contractor that doesn’t follow our coding standards; we’ll clean that up later.&#

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In general, when a startup is young with relatively simple operations, Finance is an easier function to outsource as the work requires less company-specific knowledge, agility, and database access (you’re closing the books monthly, not monitoring marketing campaigns or product experiments weekly).

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Up and Running

JUNE 23, 2015

Through this work, they’ve created their innovation index, a database intended as a free public health resource for what medical products are in development across the world. We will work until we get it right.” ” Maternova also reaches out directly to entrepreneurs who are developing these products.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 12, 2022

Facebook then cross-references with its database to create a lookalike audience that shares similar characteristics to the profile you specified. Stagnancy will allow other more agile marketers to leapfrog you. It allows you to filter your audience so only those you believe are receptive may receive your message.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 12, 2012

But the online database of talent agents has been around since 2001 (capitialized as WhoRepresents?com Names that combine two words, like Agilent , are OK for business-to-business companies but not so good for consumer-facing businesses. What's in a name? For startups, not as much as you might think. com , natch).

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

A quality provider will advise their clients to take the database and move it to its own server, away from direct public access. This can then be protected by using the provider’s private network to access the data between the web server and the database. Agility: The ability to adapt to new workloads, regardless of platform.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 6, 2013

Zappos could have gone off and built distribution centers, a large database of footwear, and inventory systems for shipping shoes. Here are a few pointers: Have your developers use agile development – they will love you for it. Contrast this to Zappos. Can it work for an enterprise software company?

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 29, 2018

Combined with a vast, structured database of analytics, banks will start seeing better results and learn to better understand the needs of their customers. It’s Time to Get Agile. Instead, they need to start focusing on client demands — and that means getting more agile, more responsive and more modern.

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