Steve Blank

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Top management was trying to coordinate all of the operating details (sales, manufacturing, distribution and marketing,) across all the divisions and the company almost went bankrupt that year when poor planning led to excess inventory (with unsold cars piling up at dealers and the company running out of cash.)

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

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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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Our tests suite takes nine minutes to run (distributed across 30-40 machines). The longer you wait to find out about the problem, the more likely it is to have fallen out of the human-memory cache. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? If the deploy succeeds, repeat.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 5, 2008

Three of my favorite: memcached - an in-memory object caching system. MogileFS - "Distributed (meta) file system. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you? Pay less for storage.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. pgbouncer (Lightweight connection pooler for PostgreSQL, from the developers of Skype). Varnish Cache (reverse proxy). free, distributed source code control management system. Customer Development. Codeacademy. Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Ampex’s first customer was Bing Crosby who wanted to record his radio programs for rebroadcast (and had exclusive distribution rights.) Ampex business took off when Terman introduced Ampex founder Alex Poniatoff to Joseph and Henry McMicking.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

The next time you needed to handle that page, you could take advantage of caching for excellent performance. For most of its existence, PHP didnt have a standard package-distribution system or very good module support. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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