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52 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Our model combined fair pricing and advocacy and direct development projects in each of the communities we bought from that would be managed by the communities themselves, thereby creating managerial capacity among the farmers and self-respect. At the time, I was a doing sales and marketing for a media company. Image Credit: Jen Perry.

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Case Study: Rapid iteration with hardware

Startup Lessons Learned

On the other extreme, modern web-based applications face almost no technical risk, and are governed by high market uncertainty. Eric) In a bar in Amsterdam in 2005, my two cofounders and I came to the sad conclusion that startup we tried to built for two years was doomed. I wondered if we could do the same for hardware development.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

I don’t know any developers. Post launch, if you gain traction, is where the business person will help take the load off of the technical folks. The business person can take all the meetings while the technical folks work on making the product better. How do you know which designer/developer to choose?

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LinkedIn's Series B Pitch to Greylock: Pitch Advice for Entrepreneurs

reidhoffman.org

Friendster was at its height, strongly battling MySpace after raising its premium round from Benchmark and Kleiner in the fall of 2003. Friendster raised a big round in 2003; MySpace started gaining traction. Reasoning by analogy, when you’re developing your business strategy, is dangerous.