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New Rules for the New Internet Bubble

Steve Blank

VC’s engineered financial transactions, working with entrepreneurs to brand, hype and take public un profitable companies with grand promises of the future. Just like the previous 25 years, startups still built every possible feature the founding team envisioned into a monolithic “release” of the product using “Waterfall development.”

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere – Show No. 16: Wayne Sutton and Dave Kashen

Steve Blank

And a company culture and values need to be design and engineered just like the product. . ” This was around 2001. We pivoted the company toward what the market wanted, and what our users and customer wanted, but away from my initial vision and passion. I was like, “… It’s going to be big.