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 1998 + Customer Development
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| Page 1 of 1 | Previous | Next | STEVE BLANK JANUARY 4, 2012 Why The Movie Industry Can’t Innovate and the Result is SOPA 1998 – the MPAA got congress to pass the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), making it illegal for you to make a digital copy of a DVD that you actually purchased. 2006 - broadcasters sued Cablevision (and lost) to prevent the launch of a cloud-based DVR to its customers. from box-office revenue. The reality? Piracy. | | | ARCTICSTARTUP SEPTEMBER 1, 2011  Interview With Steve Blank The company loses customers, then revenues and profits decline and it eventually gets acquired or goes out of business. that create new markets. | | | | | | | |
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STARTUP MARKETING BLOG | TUESDAY, JANUARY 20, 2009 Hire a Mathematician to Run Marketing
The financial crisis of 1998 has also been blamed on overconfidence in mathematicians ability to predict speculative markets. Posted in Acquiring Customers , Metrics Driven Marketing , viral marketing. And it’s not the first time that too much trust has been put into the abilities of these whiz kids. Their secret weapon? MORE >> -
STARTUP LESSONS LEARNED | MONDAY, JANUARY 19, 2009 Lessons Learned: Lean hiring tips
One, which is described in great detail in the Mythical Man-Month (in finding that link, I discovered that today is coincidentally the exact 11th anniversary of my first purchasing that book: Jan 19, 1998), is that as you add people to a team or project, there is an increase in communications overhead that makes everyone slightly less productive. MORE >> -
ROB.BY | THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 2012 Finding Technical Cofounders Is Hard
It means they have to deal with finances and customers and investors and other things that aren’t what they love to do, which is building software. Ask anybody what a software developer does and they can give you the one-sentence “makes software” answer. If yes, hire a contract developer. Website. As Nick P. MORE >> -
STARTUP LESSONS LEARNED | MONDAY, JUNE 8, 2009 Datablindness
Because of the extreme unknowns inherent in startup situations, we are all blind – to the realities of what customers what, market dynamics, and competitive threats. For example, a recent event I held started with a customer validation exercise (actually, this example is fictionalized for clarity). We can learn to see. for H. MORE >> -
KEVIN DEWALT | MONDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2008 Is Google Chrome Making the URL Obsolete?
Look at any publication by a medium to large sized business since 1998: memos, headed letters, flyers, handouts, etc. Home About Kevin Lean Startup Resources Subscribe From the Start-up Trenches Kevin Dewalt's experiences as a DC tech entrepreneur Is Google Chrome Making the URL Obsolete? Anyway, insightful post. That has to stop. MORE >>
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