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8 Pieces of Advice For CEOs That Need To Scale Their Startups

YoungUpstarts

The key to this is validation, validation, validation Validate the customer problem, validate the solution your product provides, and validate the opportunity size. Burn rate: Seeing company grow fast is both exciting and overwhelming experience. Philip Acuña is a journalist and PR strategist based in Medellin, Colombia.

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

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He grew up in Colombia, South America. And for every time I’ve felt hugely stressed that our burn rate was getting too high, and I didn’t know who else was going to fund the company, and I’m all in on this company, right?” So Mark, I want to build a great product. His father came from Romania.

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