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Cybersecurity startups face market challenges

ReadWriteStart

Moreover, they must prioritize innovation and agility to differentiate themselves from many companies offering similar cybersecurity solutions. To stand out, many cybersecurity startups focus on providing unique, cutting-edge solutions, such as artificial intelligence-driven threat recognition and zero-trust security frameworks.

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The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development

Startup Lessons Learned

Brant and Patrick undertook a difficult challenge: to provide a generally accessible introduction to Customer Development, without diluting its impact or dumbing-down its principles. While the customer development framework of Four Steps is universally relevant, The Entrepreneur’s Guide updates its practices for modern startups.

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Punch & Pie: How Should Co-Founders Divide Equity?

Agile VC

It’s also worth keeping in mind that regardless of how the founders’ common stock is divided, there will be future issuance of stock that will dilute the founders over the lifecycle of the company. Once you have the framework, it’s simply a matter of having the conversation and reaching an agreement.

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How to Scale Organic Traffic (Without Writing a Million Blog Posts)

ConversionXL

The Jobs-to-be-done framework (JTBD) was invented by economist Clayton Christensen and is a great way to identify user intent for a topic and define the right features. For many inventory-driven sites, the JTBD framework is a better alternative to personas. To merge this emotional context with the JTBD framework, use needs as filters.

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Responses to Negative Data: Four Senior Leadership Archetypes.

Occam's Razor

They dilute the analysis with non-facts. Invest in self-learning every week – even couple hours a week – to ensure you can keep pace with the demands for sophisticated analysis which will be expected at an agile pace. You might think it would be the Attacker. A Rationalizer subtly sows doubt. Bottom-line. Give it a try.

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Punch & Pie: How Should Co-Founders Divide Equity?

Agile VC

It’s also worth keeping in mind that regardless of how the founders’ common stock is divided, there will be future issuance of stock that will dilute the founders over the lifecycle of the company. Once you have the framework, it’s simply a matter of having the conversation and reaching an agreement.

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Startup Founder Agreements

blog.simeonov.com

I have been thinking a lot recently about how to apply agile development principles to investing and key aspects of startup development such as team building. Both stem from the agile principle of delaying decisions until the last responsible moment. The first post is about agile startup fundraising. Board member.

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