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Welcome to the Era of Decentralization

Hippoland

And it was a big change in business models. Existing software engineers and tech entrepreneurs needed to retool both their skills as well as their way thinking about how software should be set up and software business models. Even the business models were still the same. (i.e. everything done online).

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Ardent War Story 6: Listen more, talk less

Steve Blank

At this point in my career I didn’t understand that the goal of getting outside the building was not only finding markets with potential customers to sell to but also confirming the company’s vision, business model and product/market fit. I had done a good job of Customer Discovery but failed at Customer Validation.

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BizMe2 is Looking to Disrupt Conferences with Turnkey Solution (Interview)

VC Cafe

Yair Margolin: I was a member of the core team at Peerapp in 2003, a supplier of caching solutions for ISPs. what’s BizMe2′s business model?). It’s great to see an early stage company bootstrapping and trying to make a difference in an area ripe for disruption. We can help them. Watch the space!

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