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Lessons Learned: Using AdWords to assess demand for your new.

Startup Lessons Learned

It was fall 2004, and the presidential election was in full swing. Now were not exactly in stealth-mode - weve pitched at Techcrunch - but Id rather not go dancing in my competitors faces. Hopefully that will take some of the sting out of the fact that you had to engage in a little trickery. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Reinventing the Office: How to Lose Fat and Increase Productivity at Work

David Teten

As the New York Times recently wrote, sitting kills. According to a 2003-2004 U.S. We’re filling it with our own team , plus a couple of startups in our portfolio ( Parsely , Phone.com , some in stealth mode). New York Sports Club , Crunch Gym ). Motion is better than no motion; stasis kills.

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16 Common Mistakes Young Startups Make

mashable.com

In fact, recent research shows that 75% of startups fail (based on a study of 2,000 startups that received VC funding from 2004 to 2010). How many entrepreneurs opening words are about how stealth their project is, followed by a 10-page NDA to hear word one? If so, I hate to break it to you, but theres a good chance it will fail.

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