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When It’s Darkest Men See the Stars

Steve Blank

Yet time after time, after the product shipped, startups would find that customers didn’t use or want most of the features. The founders were simply wrong about their assumptions about customer needs. Today open source software has slashed the cost of software development from millions of dollars to thousands.

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Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Steve Blank

Yet time after time, after the product shipped, startups would find that customers didn’t use or want most of the features. The founders were simply wrong about their assumptions about customer needs. It turns out the term “visionary founder” was usually a synonym for someone who was hallucinating. The founders.

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