Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

In a startup, both the problem and solution are unknown, and the key to success is building an integrated team that includes product development in the feedback loop with customers. 2008 09 06 Eric Ries Haas Columbia Customer Development Engineering View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. Talk about waste.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 14, 2013

but became much less so in the last decade when the bottom-line drove industries offshore. One OSRD project – the Manhattan Project which led to the development of the atomic bomb – was so secret and important that it was spun off as a separate program. This approach was successful when U.S. In lieu of the U.S.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 6, 2004

Ephraim Shwartz of Infoworld has a great piece on offshoring and implications for IT shops in the US. I couldn’t agree with him more that while there are cost benefits there are also other factors to consider when moving development offsite. The post Impact of Outsourcing/Offshoring on IT first appeared on BeyondVC.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Design, development, and digital media shops, sometimes just a few years old, are doing bigger and bigger projects and come bearing cash flow and that scarcest resource, talent. Second, the company must eventually own the product development and maintenance functions in-house. Who is valuing the worth of development?

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

That’s when you find one or more (future) customers that help fund your product development in exchange for input into the process and free or highly discounted use of the software. In this scenario, $5k or $10k goes a long way towards bringing a product to fruition. Think 1-3 person teams who release v1.0

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 6, 2004

Ephraim Shwartz of Infoworld has a great piece on offshoring and implications for IT shops in the US. I couldn’t agree with him more that while there are cost benefits there are also other factors to consider when moving development offsite. The post Impact of Outsourcing/Offshoring on IT appeared first on BeyondVC.

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Version One Ventures

JUNE 18, 2024

Climate/Energy: Moment Energy (2020) which is building energy storage systems by repurposing retired EV batteries; and EnergyBank (2021) which is designing long-term energy storage for the offshore wind market. What have we learned from investing in deep tech?

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