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Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More - Ten Recent Great Startup Posts

SoCal CTO

My experiments in lean pricing - Venture Hacks , February 16, 2010 Ash Maurya, a lean entrepreneur who runs a bootstrapped startup called CloudFire, discusses pricing issues for first versions (Minimum Viable Product – MVP). This post looks at the implementation details of HTML 5 video.

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The Ultimate Inventor’s Guide to Inventing Things

Up and Running

You can do this on your own too using the lean planning methodology. Blackbox cofounder Bjoern Lasse Herrmann says, “Too many startups start building first without talking to customers. See Also: A Curated List of Our Favorite 20 Marketing Tools. Thankfully, there’s a fast and affordable way to do so. Resources for inventors.

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Reducing the risk factors: Why first time founders should join an accelerator program

The Next Web

Ohad Frankfurt is the cofounder and CEO of Swayy , a personalized content curation and management platform. We had built an impressive technology and a really cool product in less than three months, and we tried keeping it “lean” in every way we could. Sometimes, it was a technical issue that other founders helped us to solve.