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Is the Lean Startup concept of MVP dead?

VC Cafe

In a capital scarce environment following the Dot Com crash, startups needed to do more with less and survive long enough to generate revenue. Ditch the business plan and when assumptions are proven wrong, pivot Customer Development: Build a product your customers want (vs. Capital resources alone don’t do the trick.

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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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