ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Over time, this revenue reduces the dependency on outside venture capital sources. Why It’s Critical to Choose a Modern Software Development Technology. Additionally, it becomes critical to choose a modern software development methodology suitable for crafting digital ventures.

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thebarefootvc

AUGUST 13, 2013

When I invested in enterprise software in the late 1990′s, I saw a proliferation of “best of breed” solutions. These vertical solutions would focus on specific pain pain points in the enterprise, such as logistics or customer relationship management. Fast forward to 2013.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

Since no benchmarks existed, we enlisted our engineering department in a serious software development effort and wrote our own. Then we were going to buy our competitors’ boards (think “secret shopper”) and compare them to ours.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

BPM vendor (every software vendor!) should read Steve Blank’s Manifesto for Customer Development. Steve Blank and Eric Ries writings should be mandatory for software developers in the BPM [.] Reply links for 2009-09-28 • Bare Identity , on September 28, 2009 at 5:02 pm Said: [.]

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

Present at the Creation It was early 1991 and Apple’s software development team was hard at work on QuickTime , the first multimedia framework for a computer. And I got to experience a type of customer buying behavior I had never seen before – the Novelty Effect.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

In times when venture capital is hard to get, investors extract high costs for failure (down-rounds, cram downs , new management teams, shut down the company.) And as much as I like the startup ecosystem here it seems to me that the people cost of software development forces startups to launch half-baked products.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 7, 2017

Instead of arguing why Dallas might be better than Houston we should be talking about how we can work together to get our share of venture capital dollars more in line with our population size and startup activity by unlocking additional capital sources that have been previously inaccessible to tech.

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