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Build Predictable Startup Models by Forming an Agency

ReadWriteStart

Over time, this revenue reduces the dependency on outside venture capital sources. For example, Lean Startup offers many benefits to emerging organizations, especially considering its focus on crafting a minimum viable product (MVP). This outside work provides a valuable source of revenue able to be used to fund operations.

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Out of the Ashes - Something Isn't Quite Right

Steve Blank

I was consulting for the two venture capital firms who between them put $12 million into my last failed startup. (My Yet when I talked to my venture capital friends, they said, “Well, that’s just how startups work. My mother kept asking if they were going to make me pay the money back. Would you mind sharing them?

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SuperMac War Story 10: The Video Spigot « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Unintended Consequences – Video Editing As these boards are flying out the door, one of the software engineers at SuperMac got to thinking about what did you do with video once you did get it into a computer – so he wrote the first Quicktime-based video editor which we called ReelTime. Adobe renamed ReelTime to Adobe Premiere.

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Customer Development is Not a Focus Group

Steve Blank

The reaction from our software guys was a little less kind. “Are Do you understand you are doubling the amount of work you are going to make for generations of software engineers? Reply My take on Customer Development and the Lean Startup | Recess Mobile Blog , on January 9, 2010 at 5:29 am Said: [.] Then WHAT it IS?

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Ardent 2: Get Out of My Building

Steve Blank

For this startup we had assembled some of the best and brightest hardware and software engineers in the computer industry. Reply My take on Customer Development and the Lean Startup | Recess Mobile Blog , on January 9, 2010 at 5:39 am Said: [.] I was about to get an education that would last a lifetime.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

PS I’m not one of those 90%, but.NET is one obvious choice for writing client software – especially since MonoMac became viable. It’s like arguing against vertical software. It’s also missing the point of engineering anything. It is clear that good software engineers avoid you.

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