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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

NewTV will depend on partners like telcos to distribute the content. Given Verizon just shut down Go90 , its short form content video service, it will be interesting to see if Verizon distributes Katzenberg’s offerings.). Then the cycle repeats with a new set of technologies. But NewTV doesn’t plan on testing these hypotheses.

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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

Posted on September 14, 2009 by steveblank Over the last 30 years Wall Street’s appetite for technology stocks have changed radically – swinging between unbridled enthusiasm to believing they’re all toxic. Large companies were acquiring technology startups just to get in the game at the same absurd prices.

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How to listen to customers, and not just the loud people

Startup Lessons Learned

But the early customers all compared it to MySpace. This was 2004, and we had never even heard of MySpace, let alone had any understanding of social networking. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? How to listen to customers, and not just the loud.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 28: Magdalena Yesil and Michael Mondavi

Steve Blank

In 2004, he launched Folio Fine Wine Partners with his wife Isabel and their children, Rob, Jr. Technology is a fantastic field if you’re a curious person because there’s always something new to learn. Magdalena : But you’re never qualified in technology. If you can’t hear the clip, click here. I always have.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 28: Magdalena Yesil and Michael Mondavi

Steve Blank

In 2004, he launched Folio Fine Wine Partners with his wife Isabel and their children, Rob, Jr. Technology is a fantastic field if you’re a curious person because there’s always something new to learn. Magdalena : But you’re never qualified in technology. If you can’t hear the clip, click here. I always have.

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Lessons Learned: SEM on five dollars a day

Startup Lessons Learned

Those rates gave us a map that told us a lot about our customers; insights that proved stable even when the company grew orders of magnitude bigger. Only much later did I realize that this was an application of customer development to online marketing. BillSeitz - yes, but that was already true back in 2004.

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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

Startup Lessons Learned

When we started IMVU in 2004, we could rely on a staggering amount of open source software that jumpstarted our initial product offering. For most of its existence, PHP didnt have a standard package-distribution system or very good module support. However, it made me remember that Im tired of technology arguments. Nice article.

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