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Is the Lean Startup concept of MVP dead?

VC Cafe

.” Steve Blank, “Is the lean startup dead?” ” The Lean Startup movement started out of necessity. In a capital scarce environment following the Dot Com crash, startups needed to do more with less and survive long enough to generate revenue. Agile Development: launch an MVP early and iterate quickly.

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Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Steve Blank

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. VCs have now ceded more control to founders.

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