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Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development

Steve Blank

I was in New York last week with my class at Columbia University and several events made me realize that the Customer Development model needs to better describe its fit with web-based businesses. However the Customer Development Model and the Lean Startup work equally well for startups on the web.

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Waves of technology platforms

Startup Lessons Learned

I was building a new startup in 1999, and wanted to do it right. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Ha.

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This Week in VC with Farb Nivi, Founder of Grockit

Both Sides of the Table

Founded in 2009 in Los Angeles by Michelle Crames. Provides electronic book services for content publishers; services include digital scanning and conversion, distribution to leading e-book retailers, monetization and royalty management. Founded in 1999 in Austin, Texas. Total raised: $1.0mm – Read more: TechCrunch.

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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Both Sides of the Table

When I built my first company starting in 1999 it cost $2.5 The biggest media attention in our industry went to the so-called “super angels&# during the 2009/10 timeframe and while I don’t believe there is such thing as a super angel I believe that much media attention was deserved. Spawning of Micro VCs.

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: Akamai

Seeing Both Sides

Facebook and Google would be obvious choices for this, but so much has been written about each of them and they represent such special business models, I worried that it would be both hard for entrepreneurs to relate and hard for me to develop new insights. The first year of revenue (1999) was $4 million – a remarkable achievement.

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The Rise of the Secondary Market for Emerging Growth Equities– Necessary But Insufficient

Pascal's View

iii. Post bubble period 2001-2009 totals $218.2 1999 : Provisions that prohibit a bank holding company from owning other financial companies were repealed on November 12, 1999, by the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. Amount of venture capital raised has exploded. i. Pre bubble period 1991-1996 totals $28 billion. cents or 6.25

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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

abovethecrowd.com

In 1817, David Ricardo published On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation where he expanded upon Smith’s work in developing the theory of Comparative Advantage. In 1999, Jack Ma created Alibaba , a Chinese-based B2B marketplace for connecting small and medium enterprise with potential export opportunities.