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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

Tech IPO prices exploded and subsequent trading prices rose to dizzying heights as the stock prices became disconnected from the traditional metrics of revenue and profits. First Movers” didn’t understand customer problems or the product features that solved those problems (what we now call product-market fit).

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Why the Future of Tesla May Depend on Knowing What Happened to Billy Durant

Steve Blank

At the time he was not only running GM but was a major Wall Street speculator (even on GM stock) and was big in the New York social scene. He bought two car companies – Sheridan and the Scripps-Booth – that competed with his existing products.) Durant had another great four years at the helm of GM.

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Building a new startup hub

Startup Lessons Learned

Its easy to take Silicon Valley for granted. Ive written a little bit about the origins of Silicon Valley because I think its important for us to understand how we got here in order to make sure we preserve what is best about our community. And do your customer development.

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What does a CTO do?

www.lanceglasser.com

Growth, Profitability, and the Stock Price. Stock buybacks. Product development. Queuing theory and product development. The Essential Product Investigation Phase Gate. Growth, Profitability, and the Stock Price. The minimum viable product. Silicon Valley melting pot.

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It’s Not a Conversion Problem, It’s a Customer Development Problem

ConversionXL

By the end of this article, you should have a better understanding of how to develop new products or tweak your existing offerings by working with existing or prospective customers to incorporate their feedback to create viable solutions to their problems, and clearly communicate their value. So What is Customer Development?

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Paul Graham on fundraising

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, August 2, 2008 Paul Graham on fundraising I have found no better primer on the current realities of starting a new technology company in a startup hub like Silicon Valley than Paul Grahams essays. but rest assured they would be. more data about their trajectory. Even VCs do it.

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When It Comes To Entrepreneurship, Age 40 Is The New 20… And Always Has Been

YoungUpstarts

Instead, he would take his evident talent to Silicon Valley. People in big companies see innovation through the lens of new product development. Such places, thought of as employing less gifted automatons, would never suit someone with his passion to set the world on fire with his great idea.