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You Actually Did This? Posted on May 6, 2010 by steveblank As an entrepreneur one of the most satisfying feelings was having an idea that few thought was rational, viable, or the common wisdom and building it into a profitable company. Though it’s over a decade since I’ve done a startup, I had that feeling again over the last few weeks. You Actually Did This? When I wrote the Four Steps to the Epiphany and invented the Customer Development process, my goal was to simply explain to myself what was broken in building a startup and propose an alternative path. The last few weeks have seen a flurry of Lean Startup conferences and presentations from companies actually using Customer Development to find a business model. The PivotOne of the key ideas of the Customer Development process was that many of the initial assumptions about your business model would probably be wrong, so it built in an iteration loop to fix them. Take a look at their presentation and see how they got to 5 million users.

Lessons Learned. Alltop, all the top stories. How to Change the World. Amazon start selling the paperback edition of my latest book, APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur. APE explains how to publish a book by breaking the process down into three stages: Author explains how to write a book. Publisher explains how to produce both ebooks and printed books.Entrepreneur explains how to market and sell your book with an emphasis on social media.

You can order APE here: There are 204 Amazon reviews for it: 181 five stars, 21 four stars, and 2 three stars which averages to five stars! Here are three of the blurbs: “Nuts, bolts, and inspiration too. Seth Godin, author and founder of The Icarus Project “Guy’s book is the perfect companion on the journey of independent publishing and great reading for the millions who aspire to become authors.” Atif Rafiq, General Manager, Kindle Direct Publishing at Amazon.com.

The “Like” Revolution. Facebook is more than a social network. It’s a platform that has changed the way we view content on the Web, the way we connect with other people and brands on the Web and the way that we express ourselves on the Web. Now with all the latest developments that Mark Zuckerberg announced during F8 and Facebook’s collaboration with partners such as Yelp and Pandora, we see that Facebook is bringing to life the vision that we all had of a future Web 3.0 where we no longer need to look for information but information finds us.

Connections between people and between brands and people are happening everywhere on the Web. Facebook is connecting all these points together into what they call “The Open Graph”. Zuckerberg writes on Facebook’s blog: “We think that the future of the web will be filled with personalized experiences. Facebook is enabling partnering websites to add the like button to their platforms and serve us content based on our interests. What does all this imply for the future? Facebook F8: One graph to rule them all | The Social. SAN FRANCISCO--Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stage at the company's F8 developer conference on Wednesday to unveil what he said is "the most transformative thing we've ever done for the Web.

" It's called the Open Graph. There was no introduction: Zuckerberg just walked onstage in jeans, sneakers, and a black hoodie and started talking about Facebook's past F8 launches. In 2007, it was the original Facebook Platform. In 2008, it was Facebook Connect. There are now more than 400 million people on Facebook, four times as many as there were the last time Facebook held an F8 event.

It took Facebook only a year for Facebook Connect to have 100 million users on both mobile devices and Web sites. Zuckerberg's first announcement was "a couple of important policy changes" to Facebook's platform, which first combine all of the various permissions a user must grant a third-party app or Connect partner into a single one-click process. Next, those permissions will also be more permanent. Alibaba.com Profit Rises 34%

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