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Are Business Plans Still Necessary?

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This is part of my ongoing series of posts and I need to file this one under both Raising Venture Capital and Startup Advice. That died with waterfall software development. I’m not even talking about your 12-page Powerpoint presentation that you need to raise venture capital or to talk with potential biz dev partners.

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

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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?

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Domain Experience Gives Entrepreneurs an Unfair Advantage

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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. In no time after they had researched their market they were up with pilots with local TV stations in 3 key DMAs.

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

SoCal CTO

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. Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? We had several emails back and forth where he provided basic details on the concept. By doing the job. Where is it?

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Why The ‘Fail Fast’ Mantra Needs to Fail

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Research this market by doing market sizing, looking at existing products, talking to customers and deciding how you will make money. OK, now you can attack me … Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Start-up Advice Startup Advice VC Industry. Define a market problem that you believe you can solve.

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