Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The tech ecosystem got a rude awakening in May 1998 when the U.S. Most early stage startups don’t have the regulatory domain expertise in-house. Hire/advisors from the inside industry but use them to make you smarter not just to outsource the work. Get outside advice at each step. will move the needle.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 13, 2020

One of the most important parts of your compliance project is going to be running a gap analysis, particularly in the early stages. While it’s great that there are free options available and these could be useful in the early stages, you might find they are less comprehensive and can cause you problems down the line.

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Version One Ventures

MAY 17, 2016

But as a start-up scales, founders can’t have their hands in everything: many companies lose focus on the customer; decisions get bogged down; and there are hiring mistakes. Amazon has a unique product development process: before starting any new project, the product manager writes an internal press release ‘announcing’ the product.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Telecom O2 learning to move at the speed of the internet 500 Startups and their accelerated feedback loops on what works, and what doesn't work in early-stage investing. Therefore, we needed a new management toolkit designed explicitly for iteration, scientific learning, and rapid experimentation.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 4, 2017

.” —  Mark Andreesen , VC at Andreesen Horowitz (2007) Although Zappos today is most associated with its eccentric CEO, Tony Hseih , the online shoe retailer’s founder, Nick Swinmurn ’s early-day hustle is probably the best example of proving out a hypothesis before spending resources on building.

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Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 10, 2017

One of the reasons the pirate label seems so appealing is that early-stage startups are a lot like pirates. This adaptability is critical in the early stages of building a great company. Are we following the principles of The Alliance and creating mutually beneficial relationships with managers and employees?

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

One of the best tricks I learned during our startup was a rule for deciding who to hire. And when businesspeople try to hire hackers, they cant tell which ones are good.Even other hackers have a hard time doing that. When we got real funding nearthe end of 1996, we hired a great CFO, who fixed everything retroactively.

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