Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). Although Catalyst folded with the dot-com crash, Ries continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com, leading efforts in agile software development and user-generated content.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

But remember that when Jobs returned to Apple in 1996, he was doing so as the co-founder and CEO of NeXT computer, a marginal computer workstation company which Apple purchased for less than $500M. Despite this dynamic history, modern record company executives badly missed the most sweeping technical innovation—the Internet.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

During the Internet Bubble there were a number of startups founded by business people who then wentlooking for hackers to create their product for them. This was not uncommonduring the Bubble, especially in companies run by business types, who thought of software development as something terrifying thattherefore had to be carefully planned.

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infochachkie.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Microsoft – Initially descriptive of the company’s software developed for the “micro” computer market, which eventually evolved into the “personal” computer market. For instance, “Hautespot” might be a clever name for a wireless video company, (as in “hot spot”), but it is difficult for uninitiated users to spell correctly.

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