Remove Customer Development Remove Liquidity Event Remove Open Source Remove Social Network
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New Rules for the New Internet Bubble

Steve Blank

They taught you about customers, markets and profits. The reward for doing so was a liquidity event via an Initial Public Offering. Startups needed millions of dollars of funding just to get their first product out the door to customers. Software companies had to buy specialized computers and license expensive software.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Social networking. Social/Sharing. High Quality, and open sourced! Mantis (Open source).