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Build Predictable Startup Models by Forming an Agency

ReadWriteStart

This allows the studio to develop processes, well-organized development teams, and growth plans. Over time, this revenue reduces the dependency on outside venture capital sources. Outside project work for clients helps to assemble talented development teams. There are many different types of startup studios.

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If You Don’t Have a Discrete Hypothesis You Are Incapable of Failing

Both Sides of the Table

I interviewed Eric for an hour for - This Week in Venture Capital. 36:30 Eric: Social media is great for people with social capital. 41:00 Transitioning from software to writing. 42:20 Did agile development influence you? 1:05:35 Middle class job of the next generation: software development!

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The Customer Development Manifesto: Reasons for the Revolution.

Steve Blank

After 20 years of working in startups, I decided to take a step back and look at the product development model I had been following and see why it usually failed to provide useful guidance in activities outside the building – sales, marketing and business development. So what’s wrong the product development model?

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The Enterprise Strikes Back

BeyondVC

Despite that, it’s also hard to ignore the following facts: Enormous spend and growth for public cloud and app infrastructure, middleware and developer software of $50b (Gartner, Pivotal S-1). Every large enterprise is a software company which means developer productivity is paramount. Rise of multi-cloud.

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Twitter Link Roundup #130 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Better Agile Than Smart – [link]. Six Myths of Product Development – [link]. What I learned from raising venture capital – [link]. Better Agile Than Smart – [link]. Six Myths of Product Development – [link]. How to Increase Trust for a Landing Page Design – [link].

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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

He serves on the advisory board of a number of technology startups, and has worked as a consultant to a number of startups, companies, and venture capital firms. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? While an undergraduate at Yale Unviersity, he co-founded Catalyst Recruiting.

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Is the Lean Startup concept of MVP dead?

VC Cafe

“After the crash, venture capital was scarce to non-existent. Ditch the business plan and when assumptions are proven wrong, pivot Customer Development: Build a product your customers want (vs. Agile Development: launch an MVP early and iterate quickly.

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