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Factual Data On Popular New Venture Success Timelines

Startup Professionals Musings

Established in Cupertino, California in 1976, Apple really didn’t get on the map until the advent of the Macintosh in 1984, eight years later. Even then, it struggled through the 80’s and 90’s, until the advent of the iMac and consumer products. Apple - It took Steve Jobs two decades to become an overnight dot-com billionaire.

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73.6% of all Statistics are Made Up

Both Sides of the Table

In 1999 I was in Japan doing a strategy project for the board of directors of Sony. It’s important to quantify the value of your product or service. With no numbers as proof points few people will buy your products. Numbers are important. I’d rather make decisions with uncertain numbers than no numbers.

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The Average Startup Overnight Success Takes Six Years

Startup Professionals Musings

Established in Cupertino, California in 1976, Apple really didn’t get on the map until the advent of the Macintosh in 1984, eight years later. Even then, it struggled through the 80’s and 90’s, until the advent of the iMac and consumer products. Apple - It took Steve Jobs two decades to become an overnight dot-com billionaire.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: New Assessment Tool For Entrepreneurs

ReadWriteStart

He currently has a 1999 strategy. MyTab Next, Heddi Cundle from San Francisco, California, discussed MyTab , an online gift-registry of sorts to raise money for travel. partners to help bring his product to market. I advised Anupam to come up with a 2011 strategy.

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5 Tips to Becoming a More Customer Centric Organization

Both Sides of the Table

The world has changed much since I started my first company in 1999. They communicated this to product management who looked at all of the internal requirements we had generated (e.g. and product management worked with me to decide what to build & when. They taped people using existing products. He’s a doctor.

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Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development

Steve Blank

And without revenue how do we know if we achieved product/market fit to exit Customer Validation?” I gave my boilerplate answer, “I’m a product guy and I tend to invest and look at deals that have measurable revenue metrics. Market Type affects your spending and sales ramp after you reach product/market fit. Don’t launch.

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Self-Driving Vehicles: The Future Always Takes Longer to Arrive (Part 1)

Agile VC

Cruise control was invented in the late 1940’s and was first adopted on a production car in 1958, the Chrysler Imperial. Adaptive cruise control –> Mitsubishi & Toyota developed LIDAR systems in early ’90s, Mercedes first launched radar systems in 1999). 2007 DARPA Grand Challenge winner.

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