Comment by mvkel

Interestingly, this was always true, it's just made more obvious when it takes less time to bring a product to a potential customer.

Launching a product was never the finish line; it was always the start line. But technical founders could trick themselves into thinking that building a product was building a business.

The same "Lean Startup" rules apply. Build something and get it in front of real people who will pay you for the thing. If they won't, back to the drawing board.

The only real "shift" I've seen is that most startups don't actually need VC at all. That's a great thing.