Competition Demand Development Team Review Technology 
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 30, 2011
It’s not clear that there was big customer demand for some of these products yet entrepreneurs were egged on by VCs to “take the money&# and try and push the market. Markets develop for a complex set of factors that are often beyond all of our control. Nascent startup markets are like fine wine, they take time to develop.
InfoChachkie
MAY 19, 2011
Although necessary, “stepping stone” approach of initially utilizing smaller VARs to enter new geographic markets can become problematic as your business grows, because large VARs often demand uncontested, broad, multi-country coverage. A detailed NRE budget will help you avoid becoming the BDC’s adjunct, outsourced engineering team.
Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 7, 2016
Way back in the early eighties, I was privileged to be part of the original IBM PC development team, led by Don Estridge. For IBM, the Personal Computer was a paradigm shift from their big business legacy, built with new technologies for totally new markets, and battleships turn very slowly. Every such deal was an exception.
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