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China Startups – The Gold Rush and Fire Extinguishers (Part 5 of 5)

Steve Blank

For the last few years, there really hasn’t been a demand to innovate on top of the ecosystem that’s been built. And they were increasing at an aggregate 33 million IOS and Android activations per month. Filed under: China , Customer Development , Technology , Venture Capital. New Rules for China.

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China Startups – The Gold Rush and Fire Extinguishers (Part 5 of 5)

Steve Blank

For the last few years, there really hasn’t been a demand to innovate on top of the ecosystem that’s been built. And they were increasing at an aggregate 33 million IOS and Android activations per month. Filed under: China , Customer Development , Technology , Venture Capital. New Rules for China.

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

Advances in machine learning, specifically natural language processing, have made generating these baseline, aggregate datasets possible, at scale, with high accuracy. Foundry Group is using their portfolio company Monday to aggregate portfolio companies’ job postings on their own jobs page. 9) Time, market, and exit investment.

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Announcing SnapTrip

The Equity Kicker

2) There is nowhere consumers can go which aggregates all the late availability properties in one place and guarantees the best prices. Excitingly, if successful, SnapTrip will grow the market by matching demand for late availability deals with discounted supply. We’re attracted to this market for two reasons.

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Business ecology and the four customer currencies

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, December 14, 2009 Business ecology and the four customer currencies Lately, I’ve been rethinking the concept of “business model&# for startups, in favor of something I call “business ecology.&# Some ecosystems are stable, others malign, and others grow and prosper.

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Coffee With Startups

Steve Blank

Some of the conversations went like this: Startup 1 Entrepreneur -“I’m competing against Company x and have been following the Customer Development process and I’ve talked to lots of customers.” Do you know how they create demand? Do you know the archetype of their customers? This is easy to test.

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

The other revels in the world as we all know it will be someday: limitless distribution enabled by new technologies, the importance of collaborative filters, and on-demand availability of all content for end-users. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?