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When It’s Darkest Men See the Stars

Steve Blank

the failure rate of new ventures (startups had no formal rules and were a hit or miss proposition), the slow adoption rate of new technologies by the government and large companies. Compressing the Product Development Cycle. The New Structure of the Venture Capital industry. Starting now.

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Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Steve Blank

The second thing that’s changed is that we’re now Compressing the Product Development Cycle. In the 20 th century startups I was part of, the time to build a first product release was measured in years as we turned out the founder’s vision of what customers wanted. China has simply become the factory.

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Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

Startup Lessons Learned

In a startup, both the problem and solution are unknown, and the key to success is building an integrated team that includes product development in the feedback loop with customers. 2008 09 06 Eric Ries Haas Columbia Customer Development Engineering View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. Talk about waste.

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Remote Jobs: The Fair Pay Rate Dilemma

Transformify

Mr. X will retain USD 10 000 for the service and uses the remaining USD 80 000 to buy product development advisory services from company ‘Zero’’ owned by the grandmother of the founders. Here’s what investors will see if no round-tripping is involved: USD 60 000 asset (partially developed e-commerce platform).

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Should You Co-Found Your Company With a Software Development Shop (2 of 2)?

David Teten

incubators, e.g., the many options in New York. intrapreneurs, e.g., the employee of GE who is tasked with launching a new business. Ideally, the economics of a development investment look like those of a cash investment; typically, a seed investor will get no more than about 20% of a company for his capital.

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Finding Your Co-Founders

techcrunch.com

SVASE or Founder Dating in Silicon Valley, First Tuesday in London and Hackers and Founders in New York all come to mind. Other cities like New York, Boston, Seattle, LA and Austin TX also have pretty strong startup communities. But at the end of the day, it is about a product being accepted. Same with Pets.com?