Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

The founders were simply wrong about their assumptions about customer needs. It turns out the term “visionary founder” was usually a synonym for someone who was hallucinating. Founders Need to Run the Company Longer. So, almost like clockwork 20 th century startups fired the innovators/founders when they scaled.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 22, 2018

The develop in-house side would point to the existing investment in staff talent. If in-house development resources have the bandwidth, why not assign them the important task of creating a new platform or application? There are two significant paradigm shifts in software development which have altered the equation.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 2, 2013

We’ve especially been interested in companies that make software developers and DevOps lives better. My partners and I often worry about companies we’ve invested in having enough bandwidth and resources to adequately cover issues of reliability, availability, and security. And then much pain ensues.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

Present at the Creation It was early 1991 and Apple’s software development team was hard at work on QuickTime , the first multimedia framework for a computer. The Cinepak codec was written by the engineer who would become my cofounder at Rocket Science Games.) There was nothing for the consumer to do. steve MIchael W. ,

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

But when done well it can really help get a company going fast, professionally and without the founders having to give up much (if any) equity - or bankrupting themselves. The founders may believe they are onto such a good idea that they don’t want to give up any equity. Award contract - Negotiate a software development contract.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 18, 2010

Before: After: And thenI ran into a Mixergy interview where 37signals founder, Jason Fried, talks about their free plan (6:00 into the interview): “… The majority of the revenues for our products come from people who sign up for the paid versions upfront. Bandwidth is still used but less storage resources, etc.

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