Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2009

However, you will be dealing with almost daily change, (new customer feedback/insights from a Customer Development process and technical roadblocks ,) as the company searches for a repeatable and scalable business model. By now the company may have found and settled on a repeatable business model. Thanks Steve!

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

You’ll hear this story in the video. This includes seed funding Automattic (who produce WordPress, the blog I use for this website) and investing in formspring.me, stickybits, Thing Labs (producer of Brizzly), KissMetrics and many others including Quantcast. I’ve already started the business modeling.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Microsofts originalplan was to make money selling programming languages, of all things.Their current business model didnt occur to them until IBM droppedit in their lap five years later. Its not what people learn in classes at MIT and Stanford that has made technology companiesspring up around them. This doesnt work well.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

link] tenthings most business-grads are too arrogant to realize that they are selling technology, not hot air, so they need a tech team to build upon, not a product. Engineers don’t always have the best business ideas. Your technology is really cool and working great but no one knows you exist. Melvin Great post!

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