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The Biggest Barriers Keeping Your Startup From Seeing Its Full Potential

ReadWriteStart

You could work to get more PR exposure. Developing your company’s website is one of the most important investments you’re going to make. PR and reputation management can be huge in getting your brand established. . In the early stages of your business’s development, you’re going to notice dead weight. Dead Weight.

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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

Startups with huge burn rates – building leases, staff, PR and advertising – ran out of money. And if their initial guesses were wrong, they needed a process that would permit them to change early on in the product development process when the cost of changes was small – the famed “pivot”. Then one day it was over. IPOs dried up.

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If You Don’t Have a Discrete Hypothesis You Are Incapable of Failing

Both Sides of the Table

when is the right time to go big with PR? 11:00 Mark on over-hyping PR. 42:20 Did agile development influence you? 1:05:35 Middle class job of the next generation: software development! should companies do spreadsheets / plan / have a hypothesis for success? how do you handle internal company morale?

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Lessons Learned: What is customer development?

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, November 8, 2008 What is customer development? But too often when its time to think about customers, marketing, positioning, or PR, we delegate it to "marketroids" or "suits." Steve Blank has devoted many years now to trying to answer that question, with a theory he calls Customer Development.

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27 Entrepreneurs Share Tips on Building an Ecommerce Business

Hearpreneur

Thanks to Danielle Sabrina, Society22 PR ! #3- Thanks to Jonathan Hussey, Developer Connection ! #4- 18- Blend strategy, innovation and agility Photo Credit: Ankit Prakash Building a thriving e-commerce business in this digital era requires a precise blend of strategy, innovation, and agility.

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Want to Know the Difference Between a CTO and a VP Engineering?

Both Sides of the Table

Some CTO’s swear that it is a huge improvement in development timeframes and doesn’t cause performance issues. They often aren’t great at planning development work. They should be setting the standards for how code is developed. For me the inflection point is usually when you have 5+ developers.

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18 Entrepreneurs Reveal How They Deal With Economic Uncertainty

Hearpreneur

When the unexpected happens we can maintain business as usual and don’t have to turn off key functions like marketing and PR. Particularly if sales have slowed, use the time to upskill in areas that have the potential to immediately impact your business like digital marketing, email marketing, and website development.