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The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 5: Customer Relationship Hypotheses

Steve Blank

We offered that the team might want to expand their user research to think about new features and verticals (document management, law firms, lab managers with discretionary budget, etc.). cloud, ec2, Amazon Web Services, etc.). Our suggestion was, “run away from the academic researcher market as fast as possible.”

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Startup Tools

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

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It’s like arguing against vertical software. Plus the tools used by startups to grow quickly (EC2 for example) are much cheaper for linux than for Windows. PS I’m not one of those 90%, but.NET is one obvious choice for writing client software – especially since MonoMac became viable. March 26, 2011 at 9:02 am.

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