1998 Engineer Open Source PR 
Steve Blank
MARCH 18, 2011
VC’s engineered financial transactions, working with entrepreneurs to brand, hype and take public un profitable companies with grand promises of the future. Customer Development , Agile Engineering and the Lean methodology enforced a process of incremental and iterative development. Thus began the 5-year dot-com bubble. The New Exits.
www.paulgraham.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
You make elaborate plans for a product, hire a team of engineers to develop it (people who do this tend to use the term "engineer" for hackers), and then find after a year that youve spent two milliondollars to develop something no one wants. Back in 1998 our CFOtried to talk me into it. We were a company whose wholem.o.
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