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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

Posted on September 14, 2009 by steveblank Over the last 30 years Wall Street’s appetite for technology stocks have changed radically – swinging between unbridled enthusiasm to believing they’re all toxic. 2009 – Back to The Future The bad news is that since the bubble most VC firms haven’t made a profit. So what’s left?

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, August 24, 2009 Marching through quicksand I have been spending a lot of time lately talking to people in various media companies: editors and agents, executives, journalists, producers and directors. Mostly it is the time and expense required to create the means of distribution for that industry.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Validated learning about customers Would you rather have $30,000 or $1 million in revenues for your startup? Instead, each potential customer has to go through a self-serve process of signing up and paying money. April 14, 2009 3:09 PM Eric Santos said. Great post!

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Coffee With Startups

Steve Blank

An existing market is one where competitors have a profitable business selling to customers who can name the market and can tell you about the features that matter to them. Do you know have they distribute their product? Do you know the archetype of their customers? Do you know the archetype of their customers?

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Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business)

Startup Lessons Learned

Even the most radical Bell Curve -style thinkers have to concede that even if there are differences between men and women in the distribution of these traits on average, these curve have substantial overlap, and there should still be a lot more of them represented in high-tech startups. So why is demographic diversity important?

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, January 4, 2009 Sharding for startups The most important aspect of a scalable web architecture is data partitioning. January 5, 2009 9:36 AM Eric said. This is great for something like a huge DHT or a distributed work queue. January 5, 2009 9:49 AM Nathan said. 21comments: Imran said.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

Tweet View Comments Guest Author Sep 20, 2009 This guest post was written by Meebo CEO Seth Sternberg. Tony P great, though meebo’s place as a “successful&# start up is still open to debate – from consumer IM aggregator to white label IM, still not making big $$. Twitter is an excellent distribution channel for us. (B)