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New Rules for the New Internet Bubble

Steve Blank

Over time, open source software the rise of the next wave of web startups and the embrace of Agile Engineering meant that startups no longer needed millions of dollars to buy specialized computers and license expensive software – they could start a company on their credit cards. 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. Back in 1998 our CFOtried to talk me into it. Surely 1998 was a little late to arrive at the party. Almost everyone who worked for us was an animal at what they did. We were a company whose wholem.o.

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