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Out of the Ashes - Something Isn't Quite Right

Steve Blank

When I told her they not only didn’t want it back, but were trying to see if they could give me more for my next company, she paused for a long while and then said in a very Russian accent, “Only in America are the streets paved with gold.” It was a long way from Ellis Island.) Oh yes, company X, they’re having problem 343.

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25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time

www.chubbybrain.com

Corporate America could learn from this. I was about to become the first person in America to sell condom key chains. In my mind, speed is a feature for all web apps so this was unacceptable, especially since it was used to run live, public websites. Post-Mortem Title : Why Wesabe Lost to Mint. Company : Wesabe.

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Think Your Start-up Is Venture Worthy? Think Again.

techcrunch.com

Just wrote about this at [link] Dave Hanna Sorry Kameko- digital life archiving is thriving. I personally think there should be a shift generally to funding smaller ideas, that are innovative enough to not cost millions to build and run, that may still net similar returns (30-50 times) but are less risk since they’re smaller.

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If I Told You I'd Have to Kill You: The Story Behind “The Secret.

Steve Blank

Do you mean the Culinary Institute of America? So, they would be running around the tennis courts collecting Baht Bugs. Under John’s tutelage I ended up running a small shift and part a very large shop and was being sent to other bases in Thailand to train others how to repair the new equipment. Thanks John, wherever you are.

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supermac War Story 7: Rabbits Out of the Hat - Product Line Extensions

Steve Blank

However, the mistake would be to confuse the interest in consumer facing companies with mass interest in the rest of corporate America. Although similar ideas were running in my mind, reading this reinforced my view that we should focus on developing multiple applications of the same hardware. It may happen, but its not there yet. (As

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

Misunderstandings cant run on too long. Heres the source code,” make sure you finish with something like, “For completion of this project, please have this up and running on a development webserver I can access to test its functionality as described.” If that works, thats a good start. Youll estimate time and cost better.