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The Lean Startup Workshop - now an O'Reilly Master Class

Startup Lessons Learned

I closed down my first business last November and I am bootstrapping the second one currently. I joined a financial services tech startup in 1999. I would love to attend one of the Lean Start-up Workshops, but unfortunately that would be difficult for me to do so financially. Cash is tight. May 14, 2009 5:23 AM David said.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #14: Selling to the “Cool Kids”

Austin Startup

I discuss category creation with one of the co-authors of Play Bigger , Christopher Lochhead, in episode #232 of Legends and Losers if you would like to really delve into that (it is a very important topic). We just hired our first in-house recruiter, Lisa Novak, and she is leading our team in this regard. it isn’t easy.

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The Future of Startups 2013-2017

Scalable Startup

And then the other thing is companies are having — if you talk to anybody running a company, they are having real trouble hiring enough qualified people. It’s very rare that they actually successfully bootstrapped, because it’s just so hard to do if you can’t invest any money. The GitHub guys did an amazing job.