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Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development

Steve Blank

Back in 1999, it all ended very bad. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. Even though he isn’t couching it in the “Discovery/Validation&# language you can see that his metrics for success are radically different than one delivering a physical product. Blog at WordPress.com.

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Retirement and Redemption « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. Alone in a ski cabin with the snow coming down outside, and my wife and daughters out on the slopes all day, I started collecting my thoughts by writing a series of “lessons learned” stories that I had hoped would become my memoirs. Blog at WordPress.com.

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Twitter Link Roundup #141 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Mobile app startups are failing like it’s 1999 – [link]. Useful Legal Documents For Designers (PDF/DOC) – [link]. – [link]. Color Wheels are wrong?

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Customer Development: Past, Present, Future

Steve Blank

Our startup was venture funded in 1999 and we didn’t pay enough attention to this advice! Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. By seeing the video, I gained some more understanding of the slides and concepts (which I have read about on your blog). I like your comment on “get liquid in a bubble&#. Blog at WordPress.com.

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Customer Development Manifesto: Market Type (part 4) « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Handspring in a Existing Market As an example, imagine it’s October 1999 and you are Donna Dubinsky the CEO of a feisty new startup, Handspring, entering the billion dollar Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) market. Other companies in the 1999 PDA market were Palm, the original innovator, as well Microsoft and Hewlett Packard.

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Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Since there was very little documentation my time was split between the design engineers who built the system and the test and deployment team getting the system ready to go overseas. Reply 7thpixel , on June 29, 2009 at 10:23 am Said: My first start up in 1999 I was employee #10 or so and signed up for a Graphic Designer position.

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Exclusive: AfterDownload, The Israeli Ad Network that Serves 15 Million Ads Daily [Interview]

VC Cafe

Liron – I’ve been in the online marketing scene since 1999, in the last six years has been involved in the online software vertical in the context of affiliate marketing. I was a VP in one of the leading online marketing agencies (best seller in Israel) and am also an attorney, in online related law. How are you scaling?