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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

Reading the NY Times article “ Jeffrey Katzenberg Raises $1 Billion for Short-Form Video Venture, ” I realized it was time for a new startup heuristic: the amount of customer discovery and product-market fit you need to find is inversely proportional to the amount and availability of risk capital. ” Fire, Ready, Aim. And it may work.

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8 Ways The Maker Movement Turns Ideas Into Businesses

Startup Professionals Musings

In case you haven’t noticed it, the rapid evolution of do-it-yourself (DIY) facilities for developers, including 3-D printers, SketchUp and makerspaces such as TechShop , have scaled down the cost of prototypes and hardware design by an order of magnitude. Quick low-cost design and fabrication alternatives are extremely valuable.

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Why Build, Measure, Learn – isn’t just throwing things against the wall to see if they work

Steve Blank

I am always surprised when critics complain that the Lean Startup’s Build, Measure, Learn approach is nothing more than “throwing incomplete products out of the building to see if they work.”. Waterfall Development. Waterfall Development was all about execution of the requirements document. Here’s how. Microsoft Windows 3.0).

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There’s more to generative AI than picks and shovels

VC Cafe

There’s a question on whether all this GPU hogging, and building capacity is not just a bubble waiting to pop, similar to the Telecom crash in the early 2000’s. Seth Rosenberg at Graylock published ‘ Product Led AI’ – pointing to opportunities for founders building AI-first companies.

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Damon Becnel Discusses How The Startup Scene Has Changed Over The Past Decade

The Startup Magazine

In 2021, the startup landscape looks much different than it did in 2000. Entrepreneurs who are considering starting their businesses might want to start by looking at this list of qualifications/requirements: The entrepreneur must have an idea for a product or service and understands how to make it happen. Increased Productivity.

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Why Startups Love The One-Two Of Engaging, Affordable Quiz Marketing

YoungUpstarts

Buzzfeed sees their quizzes shared an average of nearly 2000 times each, helping them to reach more than 580 million people in 2017. Again, this cuts down on costs and saves time. Furthermore, quizzes are some of the most shared content online. Why it works. Further, it is a scalable and automated solution. corporations.

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Making Decisions in Context

Austin Startup

You want to see your product or service performing in the hands of real users. Can you acquire them at a sustainable cost? Is there a development step that you must take to fulfill demand for a particular use case, and, if so, how does that cost get absorbed? Some products are very simple to message.