The Customer Development process is the way startups quickly iterate and test each element of their business model , reducing customer and market risk. In Discovery startups take all their hypotheses about the business model: product, market, customers, channel, etc. It’s A Marketing Problem. We Have a Marketing Problem. MORE >>

This was done by releasing a less than perfect product to the market, finding a few customers who wanted a less than perfect product, and then listening carefully to those customers to get to the ideal product. Venture Capital and TechnologyBut more services exhibit this "startup curve" than any other growth pattern. MORE >>

Dot.com Bubble ( 1995-2000): “ Anything goes” as public markets clamor for ideas, vague promises of future growth, and IPOs happen absent regard for history or profitability. They taught you about customers, markets and profits. The The goals were “first mover advantage,” “grab market share” and “get big fast.” Carpe Diem. MORE >>

But there was one entirely new business that got created on top of the Facebook platform and that is social gaming, which industry analysts project will be a $1.6bn market this year and I think that number is low. Tags: Venture Capital and Technology He'd written a post that was quite positive about the iPad. thing?", MORE >>

The startup market is hypercompetitive. The capital markets are finite at some level. And the number of startups chasing these markets seems to have doubled or tripled in the past couple years. The conventional wisdom is that 10-20% of venture funds produce 100% of the returns in the asset class. Makers are making. MORE >>