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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

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Why Entrepreneurs Hate Lawyers. In many of them I get asked similar questions, including the inevitable “what makes a great entrepreneur?” " In fact, 3 of the 10 selected companies from the past two years has followed this business model. If you’re an entrepreneur, the glib answer is “no.” You Can’t Sign This Deal.

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Customer Validation - 33 Great Articles

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Vision Synching in a Lean Startup The Fallacy of Customer Development Entrepreneurs, Lower Investors’ Risk by Validating your Start-up Company’s Business Proposition Lessons Learned: What is customer development? billion dollar mistake.

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Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – Steve Gilison

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I’m currently working with several startups, helping them launch new web businesses. Basically everything from initial feasibility analysis and business plans through defining the product (PRDs) and project managing the development of the project. Likely any successful web entrepreneur has more ideas than time.

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16 Great Startup Posts from March

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Granularity and Consistency of Startup Metrics - SoCal CTO , March 11, 2010 Tim Berry has a great post on Why I Hate Those Huge Market Numbers tells us that he doesn’t like to see business plans with multi-billion market numbers used as the basis for projections. It’s the old – 5% of massive market gives us a big number.

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Top 57 Online Startups Meets Technology Meets Product Posts for November 2010

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The 11 Harsh Realities Of Being An Entrepreneur - OnStartups , November 1, 2010 There's always talk about the end game in the form of an acquisition, funding announcement, or eventual flame out. love to find great products and services made by entrepreneurs who are trying to change the world. This doesn’t make sense.

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Attorney and Startup Business Advisor – Aaron Shechet

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I feel too many people are discouraging, and as a result, too many entrepreneurs are discouraged and give up. We both have experience in business and thinking outside the box. Sometimes we draft business plans and coach the entrepreneurs on their pitch, and sometimes we even help develop a business model.

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Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010

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He blogs to 10,000 web entrepreneurs at Software by Rob and co-hosts the podcast Startups for the Rest of Us. They are: Fred Wilson: Lead Investors, Dipshit Companies, and Funding Every Entrepreneur. Often board members give entrepreneurs two bits of advice regarding scale: Get a mentor. twenty in your wallet?

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