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Test Your Aptitude for Business Internet Jargon

Startup Professionals Musings

See how many of the following “new” Internet concepts you recognize, and can explain in terms of value to your business. If you have heard the lingo, but most of these are not in your startup business plan, you are already in jeopardy as an entrepreneur: Blogging. You can use it for your business.

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The Lean LaunchPad – Teaching Entrepreneurship as a Management Science

Steve Blank

Many entrepreneurship courses focus on teaching students “how to write a business plan.” are what make it a business, 2) business plans are fine for large companies where there is an existing market, existing product and existing customers. This class is not about how to write a business plan.

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Lessons Learned on Mashable today

Startup Lessons Learned

My son is planning a software product that will take the mystery out of wikis and make the technology easier for consumers to use. My startup business (web development) is being shunned by virtually every other potential investor I approached thus far. Funnel averages over time. You can read the article to find out why.

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Waves of technology platforms

Startup Lessons Learned

It felt like software that grownups were supposed to use, and we didnt qualify. It cost us a few hundred thousand dollars to get our app up and running, but none of that was dollars spent on software licenses or professional services. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers.

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Lessons Learned: What is customer development?

Startup Lessons Learned

For software, we have many - you can enjoy a nice long list on Wikipedia. Most likely, your business plan is loaded with opinions and guesses, sprinkled with a dash of vision and hope. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. When we build products, we use a methodology.

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Lessons Learned: Inc Magazine on Minimum Viable Product (and a.

Startup Lessons Learned

Consider the method used by TPGTEX Label Solutions, a Houston -based software company that specializes in bar codes and labels for manufacturers and chemical companies. It isnt until a customer actually clicks or calls to place an order that TPGTEXs developers will build the software. "We

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Why we need to teach MBA’s about modern entrepreneurship (and what Harvard Business School is doing about it)

Startup Lessons Learned

We still have some collective scar tissue: the idea conjures up the hordes of dot-com hopefuls that descended on VC’s and angel investors with little more than a business plan. For example, in my work with MBA’s who want to go into software entrepreneurship, I often encourage them to learn how to program.