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Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development

Steve Blank

Back in 1999, it all ended very bad. 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.

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Retirement and Redemption « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

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.

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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! 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&#.

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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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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]. 33 Creative Uses of Vertical Scrolling in Web Design – [link]. Want to Win The Competition For Customers?

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Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

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. 2 weeks in they had outsourced my job, which lead to an awkward conversation. Manager: “Sorry man we outsourced your job, I guess this was already in the works before I hired you.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #14: Selling to the “Cool Kids”

Austin Startup

To make the point about how different the Coremetrics approach was as one of the first Software as a Service (SaaS) companies back in 1999, I would show a demo of my eCommerce site, BodyMatrix, and have someone click around, looking at different products and putting some in their shopping cart. It is easier to do this than it may sound.