Shoestring Budget? Starting to feel growth issues on your back-end? Embrace unix and C

Re:Shoestring Budget? Starting to feel growth issues on you... by mattmaroon on Tuesday September 09, 2008 @01:30PM (#299608)

Most startups that have scaling problems have them due to number of customers, in which case it's trivial to either monetize or raise some money.

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Re:Shoestring Budget? Starting to feel growth issues on you... by jshen on Tuesday September 09, 2008 @11:40PM (#300066)

i'm not sure this is true. I've been at a couple of startups where the scaling issues came from the database growing everyday with a relatively fixed set of users.

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Re:Shoestring Budget? Starting to feel growth issues on you... by mattmaroon on Thursday September 11, 2008 @03:59PM (#301703)

I would still bet the number of startups that have problems like that are <10%

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Re:Shoestring Budget? Starting to feel growth issues on you... by jshen on Saturday September 13, 2008 @04:55PM (#303342)

that's probably true. We weren't getting VC funding and had a stream of revenue to keep it going for a couple years.

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