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Why Companies are Not Startups

Steve Blank

Product management tools like Stage-Gate ® emerged to systematically manage Waterfall product development. The product management process assumes that product/market fit is known, and the products can get spec’d and then implemented in a linear fashion. StageGate Process. What Does this Mean?

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Invest in Israel Newsletter – June 2012 Edition

VC Cafe

Lots of returns are being made these days, but the latest CalPers report shows dissapointing returns by Israeli VC firms , with an IRR of 3.5%-3.8% has acquired Israeli face recognition technology developer Face.com for $100 million. This month’s trend continues to be acquisitions of Israeli firms by large US corporates. Facebook Inc.

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