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Startups: Avoid These Inner-Series Mistakes When Scaling Your Business

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by Everett Harper, CEO and cofounder of Truss. Over the years, the Truss team has worked with several early-stage startups, and noticed a consistency in inter-series problems (regardless of the industry). From a customer standpoint, there are nuances that go into buying a product, and then using the product.

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Fundraising Debt And How To Avoid It

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Ten years ago, Ward Cunningham published a Youtube video that introduced the concept of “technical debt” to the world. Compounding the problem, founders often ramp up expenses and their burn rate as they collect fundraising debt, always expecting better performance to be just around the corner, and being prepared for the next round. .

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

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It was all technical. You know, the weird thing, Derek, and I should probably let you speak some time, but I was deeply technical when I went into Andersen consulting, and I got paid much less than engineers who graduated, because I had a degree in economics. Technical founder. And my specialty was computer networks.

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