Month: January 2012
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Leaner Ries’ Pieces and Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
Last night I went to TechHub to see Eric Ries coach 4 start-ups in lean start-up thinking. Eric (32) is a brilliant and inspirational speaker. He had his own successful start-up and then spent a lot of time thinking about why it was successful and following a scientific process of hypothesis – experiment – measurement…
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ElephantPM and lean project management
My core customers are SMEs who are facing organisational challenges arising from growth. One of the challenges that I face is that many SMEs regard project managers in the same way they do dentists – a necessary expense to be incurred when the pain is too great. This makes for difficulties because project management is…
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Investing in Startups – For Entrepreneurs and Angel Investors
Last night I attend the London Business Starters meetup Investing in Startups – For Entrepreneurs and Angel Investors. There were two presentations. Michael Waschnig talked about the start-up life cycle. He used the model presented in the Startup Genome Report (register and download): Discovery Validation Efficiency Scale Profit maximization Renewal With particular emphasis on the…
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CloudFront now supports 20 GB downloads
An interesting announcement from Amazon AWS. Now CloudFront can be used to deliver even the largest types training materials and software. The ability to use custom origins will be interesting to users who store their content in their own content management systems (CMS). Amazon CloudFront: Announces Support for Delivery of Files up to 20 GB…
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Amazon S3 object expiration
Over the Christmas period Amazon announced. Today we’re excited to announce Object Expiration, a new feature to help you efficiently manage data stored in Amazon S3. Object Expiration enables you to schedule the removal of objects after a defined time period. This is very cool. Chron jobs are always problematic, it is much better to…
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2011 a year of blog posts
The nice people at WordPress have kindly done a report on this blog. I seem to have made about 80 posts and received 6500 page views. Should you like to know more feel free to click the annual report. https://blog.jamesbayley.com/2011/annual-report/
Dr James Bayley 