For Customer Development to succeed, everyone on the team - from investor or parent company to engineers, marketers and founders - needs to understand and agree that the Customer Development process is different to its core.
Describing something as the 'Woodstock of...' has taken to mean a one-of-a-kind historic gathering.
Creating a vertically oriented regional ecosystem is a pretty amazing accomplishment for any country or industry.
Startups are companies that are still in the process of searching for a business model. Ventures that are further along and executing their business models are no longer startups; they are early-stage companies.
Not all new ventures are at the same stage of maturity.
One can make the case that the New York venture capital industry is rooted in the 21st century, not the 20th.