Notes from a Google Entreprenuer Day

These are notes I had lying around from a Google Entrepreneur Day.

• Small teams, Flat structure. Adaptibility. Agile, flexible, high sharing of data.
• Meritocracy and Transparency. Helps make passionate people.
• Execution. Experiment often, fail quickly. Testing and Auditing. Reward risk, do not punish failure.
• Collect and aggregate usage data. Data should not lie, and it will keep you honest.
• 3 A's of entrepreneurship:
  
  1. Audit Data and yourself.
  2. Admit when things are not working.
  3. Adapt in order to survive.

 Understand your user

• Australia has the highest internet penetration. Best place to actually test. South Korea, UK and US are other penetration markets.
• Trends: Mobility, Video, Social, Cloud.
• Consumerism of IT. Take Consumer technology (phones, tablets, etc) into the business.

BigQuery

• Big Data is "When the cost of throwing away data becomes higher than technology used to store it"
• Batch-based solutions were not fast enough (for data-driven decision making)
• Accessed via RESTful API. Make it into a service.
• Suitable for aggregation and predictions.

Go

• Small language
• Simple type system
• Fast runtime properties
• Native concurrency support
• Fast development workflow
• Comprehensive standard library
• Standard library includes JSON, XML, net, SQL database and command line flags

Lean platforms for lean start-ups

• You are not the only one working on it. You do not always have a great idea.
• Steps:
1. Start small, start fast
2. Learn like a scientist. Rigorous, precise, learn from failure.
3. Minimise friction to ship
• Advatange is that a start-up can focus on markets no-one cares about.
• Move fast and break things