Remove Connecticut Remove Conversion Remove Cost Remove Product Development
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Unintended Lessons

Steve Blank

checking out the shopping in Georgetown, saw beautiful horse country in Pennsylvania and upstate NY and headed down into the bays and coves of Connecticut filled with sailboats. We had some great conversations in the car, but one stuck in my mind. Now that I’m older, I’m starting to know what things cost.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

The project was so low cost they did not even want to bother with it. Also if one has a portal that is massive in ideas such as Yahoo, Facebook, Google, Twitter, and YouTube combined like my own without third party back ends it cost a pretty penny to build a custom one if one did not know about clones etc. it is always product first.

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Finding Your Co-Founders

techcrunch.com

In my case, I grew up in Connecticut and spent a fair amount of time in New York – all the while trying to start companies, relatively unsuccessfully. More often than not, a startup/company fails because the product developed is not what the marketplace sought. The ecosystem is just hard to beat. Same with Pets.com?