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The Changing Venture Landscape

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Seksom most recently ran Corporate Development & Strategy for Twitter so he knows a thing or two about exits to corporates and whether he funds a startup or not I suspect many will get value from building a relationship with him for his expertise. He also wrote this excellent book on the Venture Capital industry that I highly recommend

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Why The ‘Fail Fast’ Mantra Needs to Fail

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Failing fast may be an out for our bootstrapped lives, but it’s not an option.&# Think about that. So can somebody with better branding skills than I have please come up with the new term that we can all use for what we all know we want to see – customer development, MVP, rapid iteration, pivot and learn. Paying customers.

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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

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This ended up developing into Visual Basic for Applications , the strategy for programmability in Microsoft Office. Do you see product managers as a hindrance to software development? Companies historically have structured their development teams in different ways. Communicating with the developers who write code.