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Failure and Redemption

Steve Blank

This was the fault of my cofounder since he was in charge of game development, it was the engineers who bailed on me, it was the sales and marketing people who didn’t tell me how bad the games were, it was the VC’s who refused to put any more money in the company, it was Sega’s fault for making a bad gaming platform…. Redemption.

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Failure and Redemption

Steve Blank

This was the fault of my cofounder since he was in charge of game development, it was the engineers who bailed on me, it was the sales and marketing people who didn’t tell me how bad the games were, it was the VC’s who refused to put any more money in the company, it was Sega’s fault for making a bad gaming platform…. Redemption.

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The Customer Development Manifesto: The Startup Death Spiral (part.

Steve Blank

Finally, I’ll write about how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. Part 4 of the Customer Development Manifesto to follow.

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Engineering spirals: 10 philosophies to facilitate innovation

The Next Web

Prior to Netflix, Daniel ran application development for NPR where, among other things, he created the NPR API. Get busy living, or get busy dying” – Shawshank Redemption Building great engineering teams is difficult, but it is also increasingly important as the world in which we live is more than ever driven by software.

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Retirement and Redemption « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Eighty some pages later I realized that a) I had some great war stories as a good marketeer and failed CEO, b) I’d have to pay my wife and kids to read them, c) the three of them were probably the entire total available market, and d) when I looked at what I had done and what other entrepreneurs had done at their startups, that there was a pattern.

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

which they co-developed with Fenwick & West. . This does not account for the value of any residual stake investors may retain after full redemption. John Berger observed, “In many countries (like the US) you can’t force a board to make a redemption payment or dividend. Lose your house, burn your credit score.

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How and Why You Should Validate Your App Idea Before You Build

Up and Running

Some believe in the all-in approach to product development: build an advanced app. An entrepreneur can quantitatively test potential buyers’ real intentions and develop a genuine understanding their needs before building out the product (app). Early stage idea validation can be accomplished without building an application.