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A New Era For Entrepreneurs And Startups Has Begun

Startup Professionals Musings

in 2013, with aggregate proceeds of over $38 billion. Twitter was one of the most notable, with a market capitalization now up to $38 billion all by itself. No wonder 90% of the successful startups still bootstrap. The world is a now single market, both homogeneous and heterogeneous.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Spotlight on Latin and Central America

ReadWriteStart

As I said to an entrepreneur from Hong Kong at a previous roundtable: whether you are building a startup in Silicon Valley or Timbuktu, the methodology of bringing a product or service to market is not that much different. He needs to bootstrap it to a certain level, and following the 1M/1M methodology would be a good start.

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30 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

On top of that, we built solutions, training, programs, and routes to market by solving each problem we faced and our fellow food entrepreneurs faced. My second reason is that I was working a day job in event marketing while pursuing a career in entertainment, so when covid lockdown hit, all my income streams disappeared in the same week.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 36: Jim Semick and Peter Arvai

Steve Blank

a company that aggregates data on treatment outcomes for hospital patients. — Peter says they launched Prezi in the middle of the 2008 crash, with the audacious goal of taking on Apple, Microsoft and Google. In Sweden, he founded omvard.se Given all that I’ve seen in my career I don’t sweat the small stuff.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

Because they have no presence in the market, they have to find distribution channels to bring in customers. Over time, they have found a formula for acquiring, qualifying, and selling customers in the market segments they have targeted. What’s the total available market? This unit of progress is remarkable in several ways.

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It's a startup, not a spreadsheet

Startup Lessons Learned

It’s entirely possible for the startup to be a massive success without having large aggregate numbers, because the startup has succeeded in finding a passionate, but small, early adopter base that has tremendous per-customer behavior.

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Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases non-events

Startup Lessons Learned

Ash Maurya is the founder of WiredReach , a bootstrapped startup that he has been running for seven years. The user activation flow is the most critical path towards achieving initial user gratification or product/market fit. Ash Maurya is the founder of WiredReach , a bootstrapped startup that he has been running for seven years.