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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

Reading the NY Times article “ Jeffrey Katzenberg Raises $1 Billion for Short-Form Video Venture, ” I realized it was time for a new startup heuristic: the amount of customer discovery and product-market fit you need to find is inversely proportional to the amount and availability of risk capital. Then one day it was over.

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Ecommerce Trendwatching: How To Find, Follow, and Set Trends

ReadWriteStart

TikTok and Influencers One viral video on TikTok can reach 1.5 The video content will remain effective for another couple of years: from DIY to answering the most common questions to reviewing the products. We noticed the short video format works well. We focused on short videos, which worked for us.

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SuperMac War Story 10: The Video Spigot « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

But the team believed adding video as an integral part of an operating system and user experience (where there had only been text and still images) would be transformative. But Apple had planned to announce and demo QuickTime without a way to get video into the Mac. But here was a $499 product that could let everyone use video.)

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 3

Both Sides of the Table

Investors: FirstMark Capital (Amish Jani)(lead), with existing investors: Accel Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, First Round Capital, Reid Hoffman. Assistly “Multi-channel customer support and management service&# – this is another industry I love and I specifically love the team at Assistly.

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Leading Visual Content Creation App Developer Lightricks Raises $130 Million Series D

The Startup Magazine

The $130 million Series D investment round was co-led by New York-based global private equity and venture capital firm Insight Partners and Hanaco Venture Capital. Hanaco Venture Capital is a fund located in New York and Tel Aviv that invests in developing and late-stage startups from across the world.

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

Draw Your Ideas - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 16, 2010 I saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month. The video is only 16 minutes long and it is well worth the time. He’d wasted a year of his life and had a pile of stock options that weren’t very interesting. Tesla is not. It's a great talk.

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My 13 Favorite Alternative Funding Options of 2013

Up and Running

You build a campaign by creating videos, telling your story, participating in social media promotion, and offering “perks”, which are goods or services that you offer in exchange for donations. RocketHub also recently partnered with the TV channel A&E for marketing and funding help for their favorite fundraising campaigns.

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