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Is the Lean Startup concept of MVP dead?

VC Cafe

“After the crash, venture capital was scarce to non-existent. Single users can test enterprise software using a credit card. With the risk of sounding too conservative, what matters for startups now, as venture capital becomes less available and consumer spending tightens, is adaptation and survival.

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Five Tips for Giving a Professional or Technical Talk

This is going to be BIG.

Some organizers don’t actually know—and they just decided to invite any random VC, software developer, or founder—hence their really boring, generic questions. Saying “we chose to use this tool” or “I raised a smaller fund” misses out on the part that makes your story more widely applicable to the audience—the “because” part.

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Build, Buy Or Build To Buy

YoungUpstarts

Afterward, I met the CIO from one of our law firm clients who was in the audience. There are two significant paradigm shifts in software development which have altered the equation. First, the acceleration and acceptance of cloud-based services have allowed more entries into the market for core platform development.

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What Tech Entrepreneurs Could Learn from Chamillionaire

Both Sides of the Table

I had called on Chamillionaire from the audience and asked him to provide some views on how artists view social media, why they use it and where it’s heading. Cham studied early in his career how to hold the microphone, how to project his voice, how to watch the audience and pay attention to what interested them.

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Twitter Link Roundup #211 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

based venture capital investors, by deal stage. Most active venture capital investors of 2013 in the US by stage – pic.twitter.com/cfCFXWmpbH. Flappy Bird is proof that no one knows what the audience wants | Polygon - crowdspring.co/Ntt8Or. The image above shows the investment activity of U.S. 1girpFe.

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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

Both Sides of the Table

Do you see product managers as a hindrance to software development? Companies historically have structured their development teams in different ways. Microsoft became obsessed with COM, OLE and felt that it was the future of software development. Start blogging to your customers and your intended audience.

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Lean Startups aren't Cheap Startups

Steve Blank

For those of you who have been following the discussion, a Lean Startup is Eric Ries ’s description of the intersection of Customer Development , Agile Development and if available, open platforms and open source. Reply Top Posts « WordPress.com , on November 3, 2009 at 4:38 pm Said: [.]

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