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Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development

Steve Blank

Dave McClure’s AARRR metrics and Andrew Chen ‘s specifics on freemium models, viral marketing, user acquisition and engagement both offer examples of exit criteria for Customer Discovery and Validation for startups on the web. Reply Nivi , on November 16, 2009 at 9:47 am Said: Great stuff. Great quote.

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Google VP: Here's How to Get Bought By Us

mashable.com

The search giant’s VP of Corporate Development, along with CEO Larry Page, signs off on the dozens of acquisitions and acqui-hires made every year, large and small. There’s YouTube , of course — well established in its own right, it rewrote the book on how an acquisition can be run delicately, as a company within a company.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

Reply Crystal Williams , on April 12, 2009 at 10:38 am said: Hi Steve! … Reply Avron Olshewsky , on June 10, 2009 at 11:03 am said: Hi Steve, Read your book “The four steps …&# and have enjoyed it and your blog. WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams. Keep up the great work! … Thanks!

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2019 Accel Euroscape – The Rise of Europe

Cracking the Code

Ten years ago, in October 2009, Salesforce was a dominant force among the 21 public SaaS companies, with a valuation that represented one third of their combined $22 billion market capitalisation. 2009, CapitalQ, Yahoo! Full presentation available here. Source: The Angel VC Blog, BVP SaaS benchmarking Oct. billion collectively.

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Day of The Dead: Web Drives Strong Demand for Java Skills

www.redmonk.com

So what about Java, in light of Oracle’s acquisition of Sun, and the complete win of the web over everything else? A 59% increase in bobs since January 2009? But, why are there so many logging APIs in Java: log4j, SLF4J, sun logging, the layers on top, the custom bridges tools like Jetty add to bridge to one of them.

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Day of The Dead: Web Drives Strong Demand for Java Skills

www.redmonk.com

So what about Java, in light of Oracle’s acquisition of Sun, and the complete win of the web over everything else? A 59% increase in bobs since January 2009? But, why are there so many logging APIs in Java: log4j, SLF4J, sun logging, the layers on top, the custom bridges tools like Jetty add to bridge to one of them.

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Twitter’s New Ad Policy And The Dangers Of Tying Your Business To Another

crowdSPRING Blog

For this reason, aside from Promoted Tweets, we will not allow any third party to inject paid tweets into a timeline on any service that leverages the Twitter API. We are updating our Terms of Service to articulate clearly what we mean by this statement, and we encourage you to read the updated API Terms of Service to be released shortly.

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