VC Cafe

JULY 26, 2020

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. what you think they might need) by talking to customers and testing every aspect of the product features, pricing, etc.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

In this business environment, hiring a new CEO who had experience growing a company around a single technical innovation was a rational decision for venture investors. A company developing software would have to buy computers and license software from other companies and hire the staff to run and maintain it.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

A company developing software would have to buy computers and license software from other companies and hire the staff to run and maintain it. Today open source software has slashed the cost of software development from millions of dollars to thousands. Entrepreneurship as It’s Own Management Science.

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