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Traction Metrics Seed Real Startup Funding And Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

It’s business momentum, independent of whether you have a product delivered, proven the business model, or significantly penetrated the opportunity. Admittedly, it’s not as precisely defined as financial ratios, but every savvy business person recognizes traction when they see it.

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What do investors REALLY want?

Up and Running

You ask a question related to starting a business and for the next few weeks, every Monday, we will provide the answer. Simply leave a comment below or get in touch on any of our social media accounts – Twitter , Google+ and Facebook. Also, how safe is it to pitch my business idea to an investor? “I’m We have market share.

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Maximizing Your Marketing Impact With Fractional CMOs

Duct Tape Marketing

Additionally, it’s important to consider the power of strategic marketing alliances throught this model and how this can have the potential to bring fresh ideas from other industries into a business to drive growth and success. More About JP Maroney: Follow JP on social media: @jpmaroney JP’s website. Like this show?

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Lean LaunchPad – For Deep Science and Technology

Steve Blank

We just finished the 11th annual Lean LaunchPad class at Stanford — our first version focused on deep science and technology. The existing winter quarter of the class remains the same as we taught for the last 10 years – taking all students’ projects – e-commerce, social media, web, and mobile apps.

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Elephants Can Dance – Reinventing HP « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Army Signal Corps advisory board, and the Army was going to acquire their first computer for research. For the first 25 years HP’s business model was static. Of course HP did ship new products and innovate, but their center of innovation was sustaining innovation , around the core of their existing business.

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90 Things I've Learned From Founding 4 Technology Companies

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But, you can iterate and iterate on features, but you cannot iterate your way to a business model. I’ve seen too many businesses get stuck or fail because of their endless pursuit for the magic new feature that is going to help them gain traction. Your customer is growing up on social media. Getting social right is hard.

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Startup Tools

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AgileZen – project management visually see and interact with your work Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development Kanban Pad – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.