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Why “The Culture of Failure” is Imperative to Startup Communities

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It’s why I love the idea of the FailCon conference and hope to speak there one day. And if you want my presentation on the things I Effed Up at my first startup you can view or download the short PPT by clicking that link on Docstoc. 4:30 How did you come up with the idea of customer development?

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Are Business Plans Still Necessary?

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I remember going to an Under the Radar conference in 2006 in the heat of the Web 2.0 Unfortunately this was reinforced by the many conferences that rushed to espouse the benefits of Web 2.0 That died with waterfall software development. There were tons of young entrepreneurs showing their latest Web 2.0

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

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Draw Your Ideas - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 16, 2010 I saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month. saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month. Of the ones I have been to recently, the Nantucket Conference has been my favorite. It's a great talk. It's a great talk.

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Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

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He presented the idea at the TED conference in the mid 90′s and was literally boo’d while he was on stage. Funny story, after Bill presented at TED (back when Amazon was still a small company) Jeff Bezos was in the audience. All of that are in this week’s episode of This Week in VC. Overture (Goto.com).

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Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010

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Paul Graham on trends for the future - Business of Software Blog , August 25, 2010 Paul Graham spoke at last year's Business of Software conference. Making Money From Social Games - ArcticStartup , August 23, 2010 Games Developer Conference Europe 2010 (GDCE) took place last week in Cologne, Germany. Want to be Mercenary?

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Top 57 Online Startups Meets Technology Meets Product Posts for November 2010

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The Ultimate Combination of Startup Business Development Methods - ArcticStartup , November 16, 2010 I've been a huge fan of Steven Blank's Customer Development methodology for a long time. Your First Iteration of an Idea Will Be Wrong. think his slides are great (and by far much easier on the eye then mine.). What went wrong?