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NOVEMBER 4, 2012

I had this discussion with Steve with the camera rolling and we talked about “ The Secret History of Silicon Valley ” as place that largely grew out of defense and government spending plus research labs around the Stanford campus. 4:30 How did you come up with the idea of customer development? So what is that?

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FEBRUARY 7, 2010

When you’re researching a market you can spend a year putting your hypotheses on paper but you somehow never really have a handle on the minute details of the industry until you’ve lived in it. He’s built two ad network companies – he knows what he’s doing. Are you launching a mobile application?

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NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Ajax was the new buzzword and many companies went overboard. and the subsequent acquisition sprees of companies like Google, Yahoo!, Many of these businesses were what First Round Capital called FNACs (features, not companies – this acronym has always stuck with me). Ditto for enterprise software companies.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2009

The world has changed much since I started my first company in 1999. As organizations we have become more open and I believe this is great for businesses and their customers. Tim encouraged us to set up a blog and start talking openly about what we were doing as a company and inviting comments. Back then it seemed foreign.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. Who better to answer than the company's engineering lead. Over the last few weeks, the Real Ventures team has met with easily 50 companies. call to arms.

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MARCH 11, 2010

Research this market by doing market sizing, looking at existing products, talking to customers and deciding how you will make money. It’s intellectually lazy and I doubt many great companies are born this way. I raised too much money at my first company and regretted it. Long after the Dot Con 1.0

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