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Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development

Steve Blank

I was in New York last week with my class at Columbia University and several events made me realize that the Customer Development model needs to better describe its fit with web-based businesses. However the Customer Development Model and the Lean Startup work equally well for startups on the web. It’s an impressive portfolio.

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Think you’ve got a strategy to enter the Chinese market? Think twice

The Next Web

Yu graduated from Nankai University in 1999 with a bachelor’s degree in economics. But finding the right local partner isn’t easy, and even if you do find one, gaining a foothold in the massive Chinese mobile market takes patience, insight, and strategy. The right partners. Earlier in his career, he was a VP at Legend Capital.

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Never Negotiate Piecemeal. Here’s Why

Both Sides of the Table

When I started my first tech company in 1999 I had pretty good tech chops and had led teams but had very little exposure to many other things that matter in a startup including sales, marketing & business development. We were meeting with a potential business partner and Stuart had drafted an agreement between the two companies.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: New Assessment Tool For Entrepreneurs

ReadWriteStart

Daniel expects SharePoint's cloud based solution provider eco-system to develop over the next few years. He wants to provide both a branded app store and white-labeled stores for developers to put on their respective sites. He currently has a 1999 strategy. partners to help bring his product to market.

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10+ Trends: Recap of 2011 and What’s Next…

thebarefootvc

This was the year that the promise of technology to truly change the world and empower individuals (the reason I entered the tech world in 1994) reached global scale. As of year-end, Foursquare had over 15 million users, with an exponential growth rate globally.

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

I certainly bear no ill will to the various firms that ultimately passed on our fundraise… as a seed stage VC myself now I can appreciate how hard it is evaluating companies at the earliest stages of development. We three partners are working hard. Great to see you had such a good partner to start with. great insight.

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Gust Blog - Thoughts on startups by investors that fund them

Gust

I bought the Rocket eBook Reader in 1999. Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars. Like the problem solver I had been trained as in my software development days, I parsed his issue. Managing Partner , Tangent Capital.

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