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Build, Buy Or Build To Buy

YoungUpstarts

If in-house development resources have the bandwidth, why not assign them the important task of creating a new platform or application? With the right partnership in both platform functionality and allied business models, you may find that “buying to build” may produce the winning combination.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: LexSet

Austin Startup

The LexSet Co-Founders (left to right) CEO Francis Bitonti , President Leslie Oliver Karpas , and COO Azam Khan won $250,000 in Verizon’s Built on 5G Challenge The Forrest Four-Cast: March 3, 2020 LexSet serves AI engineers, especially those with limited resources, with a better way to annotate photos.

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How to Stop Playing “Target Market Roulette”: A new addition to the Lean toolset

Steve Blank

Modern entrepreneurship began at the turn of this century with the observation that startups aren’t smaller versions of large companies – large companies at their core execute known business models, while startups search for scalable business models. This new framework can act as the front-end of Customer Development.

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Why Uber is The Revenge of the Founders

Steve Blank

Why do these founders get to stay around? Because the balance of power has dramatically shifted from investors to founders. VCs competing for unicorn investments have given founders control of the board. — all great things when you are executing and scaling a known business model.

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Deep dive: Cancellation rate in SaaS business models

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

I put in these particular elements because I did a study of the reasons people cancel at WP Engine , and these are the main reasons for cancellation. For a quality-service company like WP Engine a high cancellation rate is a sign of terminal cancer even if acquisition rates are also increasing, so this metric isn’t useful to us.

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How to Build a Great Product Before Hiring Your First PM

View from Seed

Many founders have to turn to brute force to figure it out, even when they themselves don’t have practitioner product management experience. When you have extremely limited engineering resources, it’s even more critical to stay focused and clearly set your priorities. Post-PMF: Key milestones the business needs to hit (e.g.

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I’ve Built Multiple Growth Teams. Here’s Why I Won’t Do It Again.

ConversionXL

It other words, it’s a team of designers and engineers. We had a designer, a front-end engineer, and a data scientist. Then, I evolved it into a growth team by hiring a designer and two engineers. Every team included a mix of designers, engineers, marketers, and copywriters. The growth teams that I’ve built.