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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: New Assessment Tool For Entrepreneurs

ReadWriteStart

He currently has a 1999 strategy. MyTab Next, Heddi Cundle from San Francisco, California, discussed MyTab , an online gift-registry of sorts to raise money for travel. partners to help bring his product to market. I advised Anupam to come up with a 2011 strategy.

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Times Square Strategy Session ā€“ Web Startups and Customer Development

Steve Blank

And without revenue how do we know if we achieved product/market fit to exit Customer Validation?ā€ I gave my boilerplate answer, ā€œIā€™m a product guy and I tend to invest and look at deals that have measurable revenue metrics. Market Type affects your spending and sales ramp after you reach product/market fit. Don’t launch.

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In Spite of Avatar, The Movie Business is Dead

Growthink Blog

Originally trained in transactional entertainment law and the representation of above-line talent, Lee worked with a number of well-known writer-director-producers in both traditional studio/network deals and in arranging non-studio financing for independent film production including such classics as Bladerunner. in History from UCLA.

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Retirement and Redemption Ā« Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Alone in a ski cabin with the snow coming down outside, and my wife and daughters out on the slopes all day, I started collecting my thoughts by writing a series of ā€œlessons learnedā€ stories that I had hoped would become my memoirs.

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Customer Development: Past, Present, Future

Steve Blank

Our startup was venture funded in 1999 and we didn’t pay enough attention to this advice! When we did get customer feedback that the product wasn’t exactly what they wanted it was hard to hear and also hard to recover from since we had spent most of our “A&# round getting to that point.

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Customer Development Manifesto: Market Type (part 4) Ā« Steve Blank

Steve Blank

In future posts Iā€™ll describe 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. Other companies in the 1999 PDA market were Palm, the original innovator, as well Microsoft and Hewlett Packard.

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Agile Opportunism ā€“ Entrepreneurial DNA Ā« Steve Blank

Steve Blank

I packed up my life in Michigan and spent five days driving to California to start work. Reply 7thpixel , on June 29, 2009 at 10:23 am Said: My first start up in 1999 I was employee #10 or so and signed up for a Graphic Designer position. They surprised themselves with how good the final product was. Driving across the U.S.

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