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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 8: Phil Randazzo and Derek Andersen

Steve Blank

People think I’m smart because I sold a lot of (buildings) in Las Vegas (at the peak) in ’04 and ’05, before the big crash. I delivered newspapers at night … for the Las Vegas Review Journal. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show. ” He went in with me.

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SuperMac War Story 9: Sales, Not Awards « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Reply steveblank , on September 22, 2010 at 2:40 pm Said: Colin, I’ve observed that when you’re a founding CEO delegating things you don’t understand is equivalent to taking the money you raised and going to Las Vegas. so at least some parts are being run by people who know what they are doing.

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Product design debt versus Technical debt

andrewchenblog.com

Coupled with A/B testing, customer development, and thinking through business problems in a scientific, hypothesis-driven way, you end up with a powerful cocktail of techniques to build a modern startup in the most iterative way possible. Ya know, something that looks like this: Why does Vegas look this way? Best regards!