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Startup Lessons Learned
JANUARY 12, 2010
For the many entrepreneurs that send me cold emails asking for me to review a business plan or answer a strategic dilemma: Im much more likely to answer if youve already tried getting an answer on the mailing list. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?
Startup Lessons Learned
JUNE 5, 2009
I think this idea is particularly appealing to those of us from an engineering background. When the project winds up getting cancelled for failing to meet its ROI justification, it’s natural for the entrepreneur to feel like it was the CFO – and their innovation-sucking spreadsheet – that is the real cause.
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Startup Lessons Learned
JANUARY 2, 2009
That fostering and encourage entrepreneurs to bring companies and products to market is a great source of innovation, job creation, etc. Unfortunately, they are disinterested in doing the hard work to help early stage entrepreneurs and companies. The only folks who invested in me were the ones who barely understood the business plan.
Startup Lessons Learned
NOVEMBER 8, 2008
I highly recommend this book for all entrepreneurs, in startups as well as in big companies. This is a self-published book, originally designed as a companion to Steves class at Berkeleys Haas school of business. Most likely, your business plan is loaded with opinions and guesses, sprinkled with a dash of vision and hope.
Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 6, 2008
They need to incorporate customer feedback into the product development and business planning process. Both are related to a common brain defect we engineers and entrepreneurs seem to be especially prone to. Especially for us introverted engineering types, there is one major drawback to talking to customers: its messy.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 27, 2010
One common worry is that this might lead companies to “release crap,&# shipping too soon with a product of such low quality that it alienates potential customers and, thus, causes entrepreneurs to abandon their vision. Entrepreneurs, faced with an early defeat, might lose their commitment to seeing their vision through.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 8, 2008
Some combination of the dot-com crash and a just terrible business plan prevented us from having to take our scalability problems to the next level. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.
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