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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

maplebutter.com

I just launched a small online retail business last week, and feel a bit lost about marketing ideas and how to get the most out of social media channels. I’m a web designer but I need to find a dependable software developer to team with. We are raising seed capital, but would like to have a US tech investor.

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When It’s Darkest Men See the Stars

Steve Blank

A company developing software would have to buy computers and license software from other companies and hire the staff to run and maintain it. Today open source software has slashed the cost of software development from millions of dollars to thousands. Entrepreneurship as It’s Own Management Science.

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Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Steve Blank

Today, for hardware and software it’s consumers – specifically consumer Internet companies – that are the drivers of innovation. When the product and channel are bits, adoption by 10’s and 100’s of millions and even billions of users can happen in years versus decades. The founders. VCs have now ceded more control to founders.

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