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New Rules for the New Internet Bubble

Steve Blank

We’re now in the second Internet bubble. Rather they understood that a startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. Rules for building a company in 2011 are different than they were in 2008 or 1998. In the new bubble PR may be your new best friend, so invest in it.

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How to Start a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

Microsofts originalplan was to make money selling programming languages, of all things.Their current business model didnt occur to them until IBM droppedit in their lap five years later. Back in 1998 our CFOtried to talk me into it. Surely 1998 was a little late to arrive at the party. This doesnt work well.

Startup 105
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Cracking The Code: Death Sentence for SaaS.or for Lawson?

Cracking the Code

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. He should have invested in Lawson obviously… I could not track back their stock price in 1998 when NetSuite was launched, but since Jan. internet. (6). Small and medium businesses. (2). for Lawson?