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New Rules for the New Internet Bubble

Steve Blank

There was no repeatable methodology, startups and their VC’s still operated like startups were simply a smaller version of a large company. 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. The New Exits. Lessons Learned.

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How to Start a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

But this is just the kindthat tends to be open source: operating systems, programminglanguages, editors, and so on. But for every startup like that, there are twenty more that operate in niche markets or live quietly down in the infrastructure.So Back in 1998 our CFOtried to talk me into it.

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