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How To Build a Web Startup – Lean LaunchPad Edition

Steve Blank

——— If you’re an experienced coder and user interface designer you think nothing is easier than diving into Ruby on Rails , Nodes.js to host your company name, email, calendar, etc. For coders: set up a web host. For non-coders: Make a quick prototype in PowerPoint, or. JustinMind , Balsamiq ).

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Childhood Coder Now Saves Failing College Classrooms

Hearpreneur

In the next five years, our goal is to exponentially increase the size of our product catalog to more than 50 online courses while generating $50 million in revenue. Where do you see your business in the next 3-5 years? Any advice you would give to entrepreneurs and business owners?

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Introduction to Growth Hacking for Startups

VC Cafe

The term “Growth Hacking”, invented by Sean Ellis , and made popular by Andrew Chen , a Silicon valley marketer and entrepreneur, is a combination of two disciplines – marketing and coding: Growth hackers are a hybrid of marketer and coder, one who looks at the traditional question of “How do I get customers for my product?”

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A Rake Too Far: Optimal Platform Pricing Strategy

abovethecrowd.com

With each hand, a small percentage of the pot is scraped off by the dealer, which in essence becomes the “revenue” for the casino. While casinos use the term “rake,” a plethora of interesting word choices exist which all describe the same thing – keeping a little bit of the revenue for the company that is running the service.

Europe 101
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Back to Colombia: Vive La Revolución Emprendedora!

Steve Blank

Second, technology education is more skill-based, graduating lots of smart coders and IT managers, but not a lot of true development visionaries. Amazingly by the end of the program’s eighth week, 8 of the 25 teams had customer revenue. The first 8-week Lean LaunchPad Colombia program. We held the first cohort of 25 teams in Oct 2012.

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Back to Colombia: Vive La Revolución Emprendedora!

Steve Blank

Second, technology education is more skill-based, graduating lots of smart coders and IT managers, but not a lot of true development visionaries. Amazingly by the end of the program’s eighth week, 8 of the 25 teams had customer revenue. The first 8-week Lean LaunchPad Colombia program. We held the first cohort of 25 teams in Oct 2012.

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Stock Market Drops. Then It Rallies. What Happens Next for Funding?

Both Sides of the Table

Companies with less than $2 million in revenue were asking for $50-60 million valuations and getting them. But you’d have to be a pretty heads-down coder to not have noticed the past 2+ weeks in the DJIA. When I first got into the industry it was 2007. Valuations were enormous relative to progress in companies.

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