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How Well Versed Are You In Startup Investor Jargon?

Startup Professionals Musings

Overvalued stocks have been called "frothy’" for some time, but now the term is being tossed around in lieu of the word "bubble" in the new world of perceived overvalued startups. This term refers to an initial venture-capital investment, often wrongly sought to seed early product development.

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Four Major Startup Stages That You Should Know About

YoungUpstarts

According to Lee M Von Kraus, PHD and a mentor at Clarity.fm, “Early stage startups are usually pre-money startup that are bootstrapping the early development of a product.”. Product development. Initial product development usually consists of prototyping and MVP. Prototyping. Team Formation.

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How to Get Picked as a Speaker for The Lean Startup Conference

Startup Lessons Learned

Now, “lean” is often used to refer to a company’s financial situation, so it might make you think of a bootstrapped or under-funded organization. But when we talk about “lean,” we’re referring to the processes a company can use, when developing a new product or service, to learn quickly about the questions it has.

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The Ultimate Guide to Starting a Software Company

Up and Running

Another great way to test your idea is to create a minimum viable product, or MVP. This is the simplest version of your product minus the frills and frosting. It’s a particularly popular strategy in the world of product development and is used to quickly and quantitatively test a product or a product feature.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Media Temple. Design/Front End: Twitter Bootstrap : Include this in your website, and you are half finished. Social Media Tracking/Marketing. IE Developer Toolbar (for ie6 & ie7). analytics for social media and online. social media and email marketing. Great for visualizing work of product development.

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The Future of Startups 2013-2017

Scalable Startup

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. We are already invested in these companies; we can’t sell our stock.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

Jones This is roughly how I bootstrapped my current startup (just raised a decent series B so things seem to be on the right track). However, my two initial co-founders were not technical and couldn’t contribute significantly during the initial year plus of development. link] Sunday links: « Colin J. How To Get There.