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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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Response to the Journal

OnlyOnce

Today, the Wall Street Journal ran an article exploring the data privacy practices of Google and some of the third party developers who utilize their G Suite ecosystem. Since our founding in 1999, we’ve kept consumer choice, permission, and transparency at the center of our business.

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Response to the Journal

OnlyOnce

Today, the Wall Street Journal ran an article exploring the data privacy practices of Google and some of the third party developers who utilize their G Suite ecosystem. Since our founding in 1999, we’ve kept consumer choice, permission, and transparency at the center of our business.

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Why I stepped away from Facebook development

Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

Although I had been developing softwares since 1999, it was the first time I could think of an idea, write the application, publish it online and virally reach thousands of people! Everything on Facebook is calling the attention of the users and as a developer you have to continuously innovate if you want to be the one they go to.

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A Relevant Tale: How Google Killed Inktomi

Diego Basch

At first I worked on developing crawling and indexing tools written in C++. In 1999 Google was gaining popularity because they were solving exactly this problem. We provided results via our API to our customers. Inktomi was the #1 search engine in the world for a while. Inktomi didn’t control the front-end.

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Twitter Link Roundup #141 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Mobile app startups are failing like it’s 1999 – [link]. Interpreting some of Twitter’s API changes – [link]. Interpreting some of Twitter’s API changes – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. – [link].

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Top 30 Startup Technology and Product Posts for September 2010

SoCal CTO

Sean Murphy on the first dozen enterprise customers - Gabriel Weinberg , September 8, 2010 I recently did a Traction Book interview with Sean Murphy who runs a boutique cutomer development firm in Silicon Valley. era is the proliferation of full featured, bidirectional APIs. development is the proliferation of web Apps (e.g.