Lessons from startup founders
Yesterday, my company Paradigm4 was featured under the NewSQL banner in Matt Turck’s blog post about the big-data landscape in 2016.
I was digging around on his company site and found a nice piece by one of their younger folk – summarizing comments by many CEO-s, startup founders who have spoken at their company’s events. Found it quite interesting: read it here.
Some were directly relevant to the field of databases – e.g. the CAP theorem is directly quoted in one of the comments. Some of the comments I found interesting:
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Try to rid of internal emails completely because they get in the way of productivity. Instead, all members of the product and design teams should use Slack + GitHub + Sunrise + any other tools to keep your team out of their inbox. [Jeremy Le Van, Sunrise]
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Data prep is still the primary time-suck for data science teams. [Amir Orad, Sisense]
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The Minimum Viable Product should not just be your first release — it should be every release. [Rohun Gholkar, NewsCred]
Matt Turck’s claim to fame: He / his company is VC to airbnb, DraftKings, pinterest, lumosity and others.