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Social Discovery Is Pushing Search and Social Closer

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Augmented Reality. Persistent rumors of a Facebook search engine, Google s efforts to integrate Google+ into its search results and Microsofts addition of Facebook tagging into Bing results. and tagged with. Oracle Fires Warning Shot At Cisco With Network Virtualization Buy. Enterprise. The Talent Wars. Six VCs Speak Out.

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Convergent Technologies: War Story 1 – Selling with Sports Scores.

Steve Blank

If you’ve tried to slog your way through my book on Customer Development you know that I’m insistent that the founders need to be the ones getting outside the building (physically or virtually) to validate all the initial hypotheses of the business model and product.

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"What's Next in Tech" Event in Boston

Altgate

just to build a product which you could then start selling (and in reality test whether there was a market at all). Some of the big ones are open source , cloud computing and virtual office infrastructure. You would have to spend millions of dollars hiring software developers, renting real estate, buying hardware, etc.

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Lessons Learned: Principles of Lean Startups, presentation for.

Startup Lessons Learned

The only way to do this is to get out of the building and test your hypotheses against reality. tags: lean startup ) Labels: customer development , events , lean startup , slides 8comments: Nivi said. Its not enough just to build a product with great features - you have to figure out if there is a market for it. Try About the author.

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The Customer Development Manifesto: Reasons for the Revolution.

Steve Blank

While these objectives provide an illusion of progress, in reality they do little to validate the business plan hypotheses about customers and what they will buy. In fact, all the marketing plans are made in a virtual vacuum of real customer feedback and information.

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Netflix's Advice on Moving to Amazon Web Services

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Read their latest case study: Ausclad Responds to Energy Demands with Virtualization. In reality you always had this problem at scale, even with the most reliable hardware, so cloud ready architecture is about taking the patterns you have to use at large scale, and using them at a smaller scale to leverage the lowest cost infrastructure."

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Strategy Roundtable: Professional Investors Do Not Invest In $20 Million Markets

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