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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

And if their initial guesses were wrong, they needed a process that would permit them to change early on in the product development process when the cost of changes was small – the famed “pivot”. They needed to be sure that what they were building was what customers wanted and needed. The result? Carpe Diem – Seize the Cash.

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How Customer Development Failed Us

Steve Blank

Here’s his story of when Customer Development failed. We were lucky to learn about Customer Development early on in the life of our startup. More importantly, we’d witnessed Customer Development’s massive success at another local startup. So how did Customer Development fail us? Filed under: Customer Development.

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Is Employee Cynicism Killing Your Culture? Ten Strategic Ways To Re-Configure It Around Trust.

YoungUpstarts

And that’s fine — embrace innovation to your heart’s content in areas like product development and marketing campaigns. He has been a regular panelist on television’s Forbes on FOX since the show’s inception in 2001. Most of us want to be known as creative, outside-the-box thinkers. Unpredictability destroys trust.

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Is Employee Cynicism Killing Your Culture?  Ten Strategic Ways to Re-Configure It Around Trust

YoungUpstarts

And that’s fine — embrace innovation to your heart’s content in areas like product development and marketing campaigns. He has been a regular panelist on television’s Forbes on FOX since the show’s inception in 2001. Most of us want to be known as creative, outside-the-box thinkers. Unpredictability destroys trust.

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Magento Keeps Going from Strength to Strength

VC Cafe

According to TechCrunch , it may very well be Paypal, who has been collaborating with Magento on product development since 2008. Similar to Wordpress, Magento has an active open source community, developing extensions and plugins for free. Varien was founded in 2001 by CEO Roy Rubin and is based in Los Angeles.

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8 Questions to Help Decide if You Should be Raising Money Now

Both Sides of the Table

Because times are slightly better now for fund raising I’d probably say two extra things: a) it may be worth a modest increase in your team size / activities / development IF you can raise more money to do this now & b) if you can raise more than you need right now (within reason) without too much extra dilution I would do so.

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The Long-Term Value of Loyalty

Both Sides of the Table

Most of what I learned about operating startups I learned from the really tough years at my first company from 2001-2003. My company had raised venture capital in April 2001 but we were told that there may never be any more coming. I learned how to better run a product management process. million, then $5.9m, $7.7m