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Building a new startup hub

Startup Lessons Learned

Provide early seed capital, and be the ones to make those introductions. And do your customer development. Thank you @ericries for drastically altering my perception of agile startup Thank you all so much for your kind words. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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When It’s Darkest Men See the Stars

Steve Blank

the failure rate of new ventures (startups had no formal rules and were a hit or miss proposition), the slow adoption rate of new technologies by the government and large companies. The plummeting cost of getting a first product to market (particularly for Internet startups) has shaken up the venture capital industry.

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Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Steve Blank

The plummeting cost of getting a first product to market (particularly for Internet startups) has shaken up the Venture Capital industry. Venture Capital used to be a tight club clustered around formal firms located in Silicon Valley, Boston, and New York. First, Venture Capital and angel investing is no longer a U.S.

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