Customer Development Employee Merger Software Review 
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 14, 2009
In theory when you went public, everyone’s shares were now tradable on the stock exchange, but usually the underwriters required a six month “lockup” when company insiders (employees and investors) couldn’t sell. The boom in Internet startups would last 4½ years until it came crashing down to earth in March 2000. So what’s left?
Steve Blank
JUNE 15, 2009
As an early employee I worked all hours of the day, never hesitated to jump on a “ red-eye ” plane to see a customer at the drop of a hat, and did what was necessary to make the company a winner. What is your advice to someone who has financial strain due to a startup? My company became the most important thing in my life.
techcrunch.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
or just present your crappy, first-run code to investors then pay someone to re-write the entire thing. The contract work burn out is totally where I’m coming from… chip WAAIIITTT… wasn’t the coding of the first version of Digg outsourced to some guy on Elance? What did you do again? Who knows.
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