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How to Raise Money – It’s a Journey Not An Event

Steve Blank

What most founders don’t realize is: Every stage of a startup requires a different set of metrics and milestones and founder skills. Knowing these will help a founder position her pitch to get investors’ attention. Founders need to keep their eye on the prize — not just the next funding round. Business Model.

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Out of the Crisis #20: the founders of Bitwise on the role of technology in empowering people, spreading benefits to underserved communities, and the creation of OnwardUS

Startup Lessons Learned

They founded Onward, a platform that matches displaced workers--usually, hourly workers--to industries that are hiring rapidly right now. Jake Soberal and Irma Olguin are the founders of a company called Bitwise. Here's my conversation with the founders of Bitwise. I am the co-founder and CEO of Bitwise Industries.

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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

Startup Lessons Learned

They mix/match examples from online, and then try and piece it together to fit their needs. NET CREATIVE MIND TEAM [link] February 17, 2009 2:32 AM Anonymoussaid. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? This is where the divide happens.

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So you say you want to be a Product Manager …?

Austin Startup

Darren Nix , Group Manager of the Assessments product team at Indeed and founder of the Y Combinator -backed startup Interviewed (acquired by Indeed), puts it this way: “Users can’t design your product for you. Hunter Brennick , co-founder and COO of Landing Lion , emphasizes humility and listening for product managers.

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Learning from Obama: maneuver warfare on the campaign trail

Startup Lessons Learned

On the other hand, we could match them strength-for-strength as soon as we knew where to go. Yet, I believe it was Obamas superior agility that led to a decisive 12-point margin in Arapahoe County, CO: I want to say thanks to everyone on the campaign, from the candidate on down to the paid staff and volunteers that I got to work with.

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The Ultimate Inventor’s Guide to Inventing Things

Up and Running

See Also: Got “Founder Fit”? You can do this on your own too using the lean planning methodology. Blackbox cofounder Bjoern Lasse Herrmann says, “Too many startups start building first without talking to customers. Usually royalties fall somewhere between 2 percent and 10 percent of the net profit.

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Out of the Crisis #3, Jen Pahlka and Raylene Yung on creating the U.S. Digital Response

Startup Lessons Learned

They co-founded it with former U.S. Jen is the founder and former executive director of Code for America. It was an example, where we can build something maybe quickly for you that helps collect volunteers and helps you match them. For episode 4 of Out of the Crisis, Jen Pahlka and Raylene Yung joined me to talk about the U.S.