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Don’t Let Investors Conclude Your Startup Is A Hobby

Gust

This will include the first version of many critical processes that can be split out later, including market opportunity, requirements, product definition, business model, sales process, and organization. Product development process. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. Funding process.

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Don’t Let Investors Conclude Your Startup Is A Hobby

Startup Professionals Musings

This will include the first version of many critical processes that can be split out later, including market opportunity, requirements, product definition, business model, sales process, and organization. Product development process. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. Funding process.

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8 Key Processes Distinguish a Business From a Hobby

Startup Professionals Musings

This will include the first version of many critical processes that can be split out later, including market opportunity, requirements, product definition, business model, sales process, and organization. Product development process. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. Funding process.

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‘Out of Control’ Startups Fail on 8 Key Processes

Startup Professionals Musings

This will include the first version of many critical processes that can be split out later, including market opportunity, requirements, product definition, business model, sales process, and organization. Product development process. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. Funding process.

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Eight Business Processes Every Startup Must Have

Startup Professionals Musings

This will include the first version of many critical processes that can be split out later, including market opportunity, requirements, product definition, business model, sales process, and organization. Product development process. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. Funding process.

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Watching Larry Ellison become Larry Ellison — The DNA of a Winner

Steve Blank

It wasn’t always perfect, but it was way more right than wrong, It informed our product development to a great degree and kept us working on more or less the right stuff. Portability (databases had previously been shackled to the specific machines they ran on). Angel investor Don Lucas had his office above ours.

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The Future of Startups 2013-2017

Scalable Startup

Security, Cloud, NoSQL databases, etc. In the last five years, there’s been this sort of acknowledgment of the consumerization of the enterprise, which is consumer product development, design methods applied to business software, of which SaaS and cloud and all these things are examples. Salesforce.com, Evernote is an example.