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Why Founders Should Know How to Code

Steve Blank

Dave was building a mobile app for matching college students who needed to move within a local area with potential local movers. As the miles sped by I explained to Dave that he had understood only two of the three parts of what makes a Lean Startup successful. In a startup building MVP’s is what turns theory into practice.

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Why More Funding Won’t Magically Fix Your Startup

Mucker Lab

Hire the wrong people. Bad hiring decisions are often a symptom of premature scaling. Why hire a sales team when you have nothing to sell yet? That sounds absurd, but founders convince themselves that they’ve hired the right people at the right moment. Be trigger shy about hiring. Honestly, we don’t know.”?

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8 Startup Excesses Which Will Jeopardize The Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Waste in a startup is any activity that burns resources, but creates no value or competitive advantage in the eyes of customers. Much has been written about this subject in the world of manufacturing, stemming primarily from the 1990’s work by Taiichi Ohno, called the Toyota Production System (“Lean”). Bottlenecks to team productivity.

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The Customer Development Manifesto: The Startup Death Spiral (part.

Steve Blank

Finally, I’ll write about how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. Without the revenue to match its expenses, the company is in now danger of running out of money. innovation.

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Out of the Crisis #2: Mark Cuban on putting people first, the Dallas Mavericks, and what we'll want on the other side

Startup Lessons Learned

It's never selfish to hire. I said, "Hire people. Hire them to do whatever you can find them to do." You really have to lean in and say, "Okay. So anything you can do to keep them hired, you just improved their sanity. It's never selfish to hire. MC : I'll tell you, nothing matches those experiences.

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“Venture Assistance”: A Philosophical View Of What Boards Should And Should Not Do

techcrunch.com

He knows how to advise entrepreneurs on hiring/firing, running teams, managing funding, when/how to control burn rate, and making other tough management decisions in the real environment of startups. I often say I have a larger collection of personal mistakes than most people in the venture business.

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25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time

www.chubbybrain.com

If you are an entrepreneur seeking funding, try our free Funding Recommendation Engine to identify a list of angels, venture capital and state grant programs that best match your business. Post-Mortem Title : My eHarmony for Hiring Failure. Hiring was a challenge we found difficult throughout the life of our Company.