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10 Common Startup Mistakes That Are Rarely Admitted

Startup Professionals Musings

Viral marketing costs real money, and your support staff and hosting systems cost even more. Even non-profits need a profitable business model to offset staff and operating costs. Assume passion level defines business opportunity. Marketing should start before product development.

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10 Popular Business Strategies That Most Often Fail

Startup Professionals Musings

Viral marketing costs real money, and your support staff and hosting systems cost even more. Even non-profits need a profitable business model to offset staff and operating costs. Assume passion level defines business opportunity. Marketing should start before product development.

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10 Shortcuts To Startup Success I Don’t Recommend

Startup Professionals Musings

Viral marketing costs real money, and your support staff and hosting systems cost even more. Even non-profits need a profitable business model to offset staff and operating costs. Assume passion level defines business opportunity. Marketing should start before product development.

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10 Paths Which Often Lead To Early Business Failure

Startup Professionals Musings

Viral marketing costs real money, and your support staff and hosting systems cost even more. Even non-profits need a profitable business model to offset staff and operating costs. Assume passion level defines business opportunity. Marketing should start before product development.

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Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 22, 2008 The three drivers of growth for your business model. The AARRR model (hence pirates, get it?) He also has a discussion of how your choice of business model determines which of these metric areas you want to focus on. Choose one.

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Crisis versus Opportunity: 6 Ways to Bootstrap a Startup in a Post-COVID-19 World While Navigating the New Normal

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In other words, it was first seen in an animal like a bat, and it consequently jumped from an animal host to a human host. Once in its human host, COVID-19 mutated so that it could spread via person-to-person transmission. There has never been a viral outbreak of such magnitude before.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

What matters is proving the viability of the company’s business model, what investors call “traction.&# Of course this is not at all true of many profitable small businesses, but they are not what I mean by startups.) In fact, this company hasn’t shipped any new products in months.

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