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How to Use Frugal Innovation to Grow Your Startup

ReadWriteStart

In recent years, however, frugal innovation has also gained traction in developed countries. This is partly due to the global financial crisis of 2008, which led many companies to reassess their spending to cut costs. As a startup, you probably don’t have much money to spend on marketing or product development.

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The Long-Term Value of Loyalty

Both Sides of the Table

I was paid less in salary in 2004 than I was paid at the job I quit in 1999 (a job I had held 8+ years). But in these years I learned how to sell software – necessity is the mother of all invention. I learned how to better run a product management process. I never built Google. I’ve acknowledged that many times.

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Why Free Plans Don't Work

Software By Rob

About the Author Ruben Gamez is the founder of Bidsketch , web based proposal software for designers. When he’s not developing software, he’s furiously working towards becoming a better Micropreneur. If you offer a product for free you get more users and more feedback on your product. at 10:31 am [.]

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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

Startup Lessons Learned

Since then, PHP (as part of the LAMP stack ) has really been the dominant development platform, at least in the free software and startup worlds. When we started IMVU in 2004, we could rely on a staggering amount of open source software that jumpstarted our initial product offering.

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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). A key aspect of our personal due diligence is then is assessing our partners, particularly learning how they react under stress." — Whitney Johnson , Co-Founder, Rose Park Advisors.

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